摘要
Halliday认为,语法是关于人类经验的理论,我们通过语法来定义现实,语法将现实转换为意义。本文将英语语法对于行为过程的把握区分为两种模式:互动模式和非互动模式。前者体现了人类对事物运动过程中因果关系的关切,是人类“科学”精神的体现。后者忽略了事物运动中的前因后果,是向原始心智的回归,是“经验主义”的体现。在童话叙事中,非互动模式是构建梦幻世界的重要手段,是这一语篇体裁最为典型、本质的“意义方式”。在童话叙事的梦幻世界中,动作的致使者被掩盖,因果关系受到冷落,结果和现象成为关注的焦点。
Language is a social-semiotic system by which human experience is defined. It is not only a system of meanings but also a system that makes meanings, i.e., a semogenic system. Meaning is thus brought about by language. The energy by which this is achieved and the source of its semogenic power are grammar (Halliday 1994). In other words, grammar is a theory of human experience. It is a system by which we define reality and transform it into meaning. The actional processes of English language fall into two models: the transactional and the non-transactional. The former reflects the concern of human being about causality, while the latter neglects causality and constitutes a return to the primitive mind. The present study reveals that the non-transactive model plays an important role in constructing fantasy in fairy tales and captures a typical way of representing meaning in this genre.
出处
《现代外语》
CSSCI
北大核心
2005年第4期367-373,共7页
Modern Foreign Languages
基金
2003年国家社会科学基金项目"叙事的社会符号学研究"成果之一
批准号03CYY008。
