矿业英语分场景学术词表构建

Construction of Scenario-Based Academic Word Lists for Mining English

摘要: 在全球矿业国际化与能源转型背景下，培养从业者分场景精准交际能力的需求日益迫切。本研究基于自建约50万词库容的矿业工程英语语料库，构建了由技术操作、安全规范、机械技术、项目管理、特种场景构成的高频词词表体系，并采用语料库语言学、ESP场景理论与认知话语分析的“三维一体”理论框架，旨在揭示不同场景的词汇应用和场景认知。研究发现：宏观上，总高频词表呈现“行动主体与治理结构”“过程规划与管理”“领域资源与影响”三大语义主题；微观上，各场景词汇分别映射出“风险–屏障–应急–制度”(安全规范)、“契约–绩效–保障”(项目管理)、“环境–回应–转型”(特种场景)、“构成–能源–运行”(机械技术)及“探–采–处”(技术操作)等独特的行业认知结构。本研究为岗位能力导向的ESP教学提供了内容参考与教学设计启示。

Abstract: Against the backdrop of global mining internationalization and the energy transition, the need to cultivate practitioners’ context-specific precise communication skills has become increasingly urgent. Based on a self-built mining engineering English corpus with a storage capacity of approximately 500,000 words, this study constructs a high-frequency word list system across five contexts: technical operation, safety regulations, mechanical technology, project management, and special scenarios. Employing a “trinity” theoretical framework integrating corpus linguistics, ESP genre theory, and cognitive discourse analysis, the study aims to reveal the lexical usage and contextual cognition across different scenarios. The findings show that, at the macro level, the overall high-frequency word list exhibits three major semantic themes: “agents and governance structures,” “process planning and management,” and “domain resources and impacts.” At the micro level, the vocabulary of each scenario reflects distinct industry-specific cognitive structures: “risk-barrier-emergency-system” (safety regulations), “contract-performance-guarantee” (project management), “environment-response-transition” (special scenarios), “composition-energy-operation” (mechanical technology), and “exploration-extraction-processing” (technical operation). This study provides content references and pedagogical design insights for competency-oriented ESP instruction.