A BEC-based Analysis of Collocational Features of RATE

Abstract

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the fast development of Business English Program in China．As a result，there has been growing interests in scientific studies of business English．This paper，based on 1-million-word Business English Corpus（BEC），conducted a profound analysis of the keyword RATE by examining its collocates，clusters and concordancing lines．The result shows that the most important collocates of RATE are interest，exchange，etc，indicating that interest rate and exchange rate play an important role in business world．This study also implies that the corpus-based analysis of business English keywords not only helps researchers discover the linguistic features of the target expressions，but also enables them to better understand the information of business encoded in those words．

Keywords: RATE; collocates; word clusters; concordancing lines; business English corpus

摘要： 随着商务英语专业的蓬勃发展，如何更为科学地开展商务英语研究，是近年来学者们越来越感兴趣的一个领域。本文以百万词的“商务英语语料库”为依托，通过搭配分析、词丛分析及索引分析等语料库技术，对商务英语主题词RATE的搭配特征进行了多方位的研究。研究结果显示，在商务语境中，RATE最重要的搭配词是interest，exchange等，反映出利率、汇率对商务活动的重要影响。本研究也表明，基于语料库的商务英语搭配分析，不仅可以揭示商务英语主题词的语言特征，还可以帮助研究者更好地理解蕴含在其中的商务信息。

关键词: RATE, 搭配词, 词丛, 索引行, 商务英语语料库

Hu Chunyu. A BEC-based Analysis of Collocational Features of RATE[J]. Journal of Beijing International Studies University, 2014, 36(2): 6-.

胡春雨. 基于商务英语语料库的RATE搭配特征研究[J]. 北京第二外国语学院学报, 2014, 36(2): 6-.

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