Abstract This paper quantitatively measures the distribution of dialogic elements across structural units in the introductory chapters of history theses with the aim of uncovering the roles of dialogic elements in constructing texts. The research was designed to test Bakhtin’s perspective on genre, which holds that viewpoints introduced into a discourse dialogise the text in such a way as to fulfil the text’s goals and structure the text. Results showed significant differences in the densities of dialogic elements across structural units; units that review previous research are highly dialogic, whereas units that present the author’s new research are seldom dialogised. Specifically, previous viewpoints tended to be dialogically endorsed in units that assert the importance of the research topic and dialogically disclaimed in units that indicated problems with previous research. The paper concludes that genre research and pedagogy need to emphasise the strategic deployment of dialogic elements that enable the successful structuring of texts. This study is intended to be one of the first methodological attempts to test the text structuring function of dialogic elements from a corpus-based investigation.

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交互声音构造文本

摘要 本文定量测量了历史论文导论章节中对话元素在结构单元中的分布，旨在揭示对话元素在构建文本中的作用。该研究旨在测试巴赫金对体裁的看法，该观点认为引入话语的观点以实现文本目标和结构文本的方式对话文本。结果表明，结构单元间对话元素的密度存在显着差异；回顾先前研究的单元是高度对话的，而展示作者新研究的单元很少对话。具体来说，先前的观点往往在断言研究主题重要性的单元中得到对话认可，而在表明先前研究存在问题的单元中则以对话方式否认。该论文的结论是，体裁研究和教学法需要强调能够成功构建文本的对话元素的战略部署。本研究旨在成为从基于语料库的调查中测试对话元素的文本结构功能的首批方法学尝试之一。