A Contrastive Study of English Introductions of Chinese and British Museums in Move Distribution and Readability
Xueqian Zhao,
Jingxiang Cao
Abstract:Based on a designed move analysis model, we manually annotated 83 English introductions of Chinese museums (EICMs) and 127 English introductions of British museums (EIBMs), and used SPSS to do the significance test on the distribution of moves. The result shows that the moves of Identification, Location, History, Evaluation, Additional Museum Attractions, and Summary in EICMs occur significantly more frequently, while the moves of Highlight, Action Soliciting, and Support occur significantly less frequently. B… Show more
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