Corpus-Driven Study On Linguistic Features Of Soviet Children’s Drama Imported During 1949-1966

As a special cultural carrier and ideological resource,children’s drama is an important tool to contribute to children’s cultivation.A group of excellent Soviet children’s dramas imported in China between 1949-1966 are not only an important part of Russian children’s literature,but also have a profound influence on contemporary Chinese children’s drama,which is of great research value.This dissertation focuses on the development history of children’s drama,theoretical research and corpus-based research on children’s literature in China and Russia,and introduces in detail the construction scheme,research tools,research models and analysis methods of observation database and reference database.Based on the self-built corpus,combined with corpus statistical and qualitative analysis,the basic lexical features of Soviet children’s drama were studied in depth from the macro and micro levels.That means the macro lexical features were investigated from the lexical richness,information intensity and word difficulty.The language features of Soviet children’s drama vocabulary have been explored from the relatively micro level by analyzing the significance of word use based on the extracted keyword table.Finally,the Soviet children’s drama’s syntactic features are analyzed from sentence length and complexity.Taking the Soviet children’s dramas imported during 1949-1966 as the research texts,the corpus analysis method,supplemented by qualitative analysis,is used to study the linguistic characteristics of Soviet children’s plays in a scientific and objective manner,which helps to promote children’s drama research,contributes to the understanding of Soviet children’s drama,and provides reference for the writing of children’s drama in contemporary China.