英汉社论人际意义的对比分析

The Comparison of Interpersonal Meaning between Chinese and English Editorials

本文以英汉社论语篇为语料,在Halliday系统功能语法人际意义的理论基础上,把情态系统作为研究核心,比较了英汉社论语篇中人际意义的实现。比较结果显示,英汉社论语篇中情态动词和情态隐喻的分布呈现不平衡趋势,汉语社论中的高值情态动词分布比例明显高于英语社论,而英语社论中的情态动词多是低量值和中量值。同时,英语社论语篇中的情态隐喻更倾向于隐性主观和显性客观情态取向,而汉语社论语篇则更倾向于显性主观和隐形客观情态取向,这种趋势体现着中西社会、文化的差异。

Mainly based on Halliday＇s theoretical framework of interpersonal meaning, the paper focuses on the comparison of interpersonal meaning between Chinese and English editorials, which takes the modality system as the core of the study. The comparison shows that modal verbs and metaphor of mood are distributed unevenly in Chinese and English editorials. There are more high value modal verbs distributed in the Chinese editorials than those in English editorials. Meanwhile, metaphor of mood tends to be subjective implicit and Objective explicit in English discourse, but be subjective explicit and objective implicit in Chinese, which correlates to the social and cultural differences.