英语标记主位探析

An Analysis of Marked Theme in English

“主位”是系统功能语法中的一个重要概念,主位有无标记主位与标记主位之分。关于标记主位,许多语言学领域的学者都有过不同程度的研究,但他们的研究主要针对标记主位的划分与界定。因此在总结马泰休斯、夸克、韩礼德和汤普森对标记主位研究的基础上,探讨分析语言运用中选择标记主位的种种原因,以深化对标记主位的研究。

Theme is a very important concept in Systemic Functional Grammar,which distinguishes the unmarked theme from the marked theme. Concerning the marked theme, much research has been done by many linguistic scholars, which is mainly concemed with how to define and identify it. The various reasons for choosing the marked theme instead of the unmarked theme in language use are discussed, based on summarizing the study of the marked theme by Mathesius, Quirk, Halliday and Thompson, so as to deepen the previous study.