标记性研究的系统功能语言学视角

Markedness:A Systemic Functional Perspective

自布拉格学派提出音系学中有标记和无标记的对立以来,标记性的概念已被延伸应用于语言学研究的其他方面。系统功能语言学对标记性问题有其独特的研究视角。文章总结韩礼德功能语法中对小句主位结构以及信息结构的标记性现象的探讨,并进一步分析系统功能语言学标记性研究的盖然率视角在解释语言系统的性质、研究语言使用的特征和探讨儿童的语言发展等方面的指导意义。

Since the Prague School initiated the study of markedness in phonology in the 1930s,the concept had been extended to apply in other areas of linguistic enquiry.Systemic functional linguistics has a unique approach to the study of markedness.This paper reviews Halliday＇s markedness of explorations thematic structure and information structure in his functional grammar,and then discusses the important implications of the systemic functional perspective based on the notion of probability for our understanding of the nature of a language,language usage and the language development.