论超主位对格律论解释的不完备性

On the Incompleteness of Accountability of HyperTheme in Periodicity

Martin & Rose的格律论将小句层面的主位—新信息结构投射到段落甚至语篇层面,提出了超主位、超新信息、宏观主位、宏观新信息等概念。Martin & Rose认为,超主位指的是段落的主题句,可以对段落信息起到预示作用。本文基于Halliday的主位观,通过考察超主位概念的形成,认为Martin & Rose的超主位在解释格律论时存在着不完备性。文章强调超主位的"段首性",同时引入复项超主位的概念,对Martin等的超主位进行部分修正,从而使得超主位概念明确化,对格律论更具解释力。

In their discourse system of Periodicity,Martin Rose introduce such concepts as hyperTheme,hyperNew,macroTheme and macroNew by projecting Theme-New structure at clause level onto paragraph or even the whole text. By hyperTheme,Martin Rose refer to topic sentence,predicting information in paragraphs. Based on Halliday’s work in Theme,this paper explores the formation and development of hyperTheme and concludes that its definition in Martin Rose’s works lacks accountability in their system of Periodicity. The paper thus tries to present some amendment to hyperTheme by emphasizing its property of being the first element in paragraphs. Meanwhile,it initiates the concept of multiple hyperTheme,adding the explicitness and accoun-tability of hyperTheme.