A Comparative Analysis of English Abstracts and Summaries of Chinese Research Articles in Three Library and Information Science Journals Indexed by the Taiwan Social Science Citation Index

三種收錄於臺灣人文及社會科學引文索引之圖書資訊學期刊之英文摘要與摘錄比較研究

古敏君(Min-Chun Ku)

《圖書資訊學刊》 17卷1期 (2019/06) Pp. 37-81

https://doi.org/10.6182/jlis.201906_17(1).037

摘要

English summary is a unique research genre that emerged in response to foreign scholars' needs for Taiwanese scholarship. It was developed as a solution to the problems caused by the inadequacy of English abstracts and the difficulties in translating full Chinese journal articles into English. Informative English summaries help Chinese journals to be used and indexed by foreign databases and citation indexes. However, different authors write in different ways. The structure and composition of English summaries remains unknown. To enhance our understanding of what has been presented to foreign readers, this study explored the structural and compositional differences between English abstracts and summaries. Abstracts and summaries of Chinese research articles published in three TSSCI-indexed library and information science journals in 2016 and 2017 were content analyzed. The results indicate English abstracts and summaries shared the same focus on reporting authors' research. The IMRD structure was decomposed, combined, and reorganized when authors wrote English summaries. Authors reported their research in relatively diverse ways in summaries than in abstracts.

關鍵字

Genre Analysis ； English Abstracts ； English Summaries ； Extended Abstracts ； Scholarly Communication

並列摘要

英文摘錄為獨特的研究文體，因應國外學者對臺灣學術之需求而生，用以彌補英文摘要之不足，並解決翻譯中文研究文章全文之困難。資訊充足之英文摘要能促進中文期刊之使用，協助其被國外資料庫與引文索引收錄。然而，不同的作者寫作方式不同，我們對英文摘錄之結構與組成所知有限。為瞭解臺灣學者究竟呈現什麼給國外讀者，本研究探討英文摘要與摘錄之結構與組成之異同，以內容分析來分析三種收錄於臺灣人文及社會科學引文索引之圖書資訊學期刊於2016與2017年出版之英文摘要與摘錄。結果顯示英文摘要與摘錄之共同焦點在於報導圖資作者之研究，作者撰寫摘錄時解構了IMRD之架構，結合並重組不同元素，以更多元的方式來撰寫英文摘錄。

並列關鍵字

文體分析 ； 英文摘要 ； 英文摘錄 ； 延伸摘要 ； 學術傳播

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