系统功能语言学语域思想新解

Reinterpretation of the Register Analysis in SFL

文章在韩礼德的基础上反思语域思想,认为语域具有两面性,分析语篇语域不仅包括情景语境分析,而且包括语义分析;揭示语域除具有两面性外,还有历史性、动态性或生态性、主观性与客观性、显性和隐性、有限性和无限性以及复杂性等特点;提出语域除预测和衔接功能外,还具有自动调节功能、创新功能和社会功能。文章在此基础上提出语域重建这一新的重要概念,详细阐释语域重建的内容、方法和原则。

Based upon Halliday＇ s concept of register, this article makes a rethinking of the register analysis in SFL. It proposes a re- gisterial duality hypothesis, thereby puts forward a new idea of register analysis, that is, the content of register analysis of a text should not only include the context of situation, but also the meaning of the text. And besides the duality, register also possesses other characteristics, such as historical nature, dynamic or ecological specificity, subjectivity and objectivity, explicitness and implicitness, finiteness and infiniteness, and complexity. And at the same time, the article discusses some new functions of re- gister except the predictability and coherence proposed by Halliday, such as automatic regulation, innovation and social function. On this basis, the reconstruction of register, an important concept of register analysis, is advanced, with a detailed interpretation of its contents, methods and principles.