突发事件中官方声明的立场与对话解读:介入视角

An interpretation of stance and dialogism in official press releases in an emergency:An ENGAGEMENT perspective of SFL

官方声明作为一种特殊语类,具有丰富的评价资源,应引起研究者关注。系统功能语言学评价系统网络的介入子系统更有助于追溯语篇的态度来源。本文以马航MH370客机失联事件中系列官方声明为语料,对其中体现价值立场的语言资源进行追踪和分析。研究发现,声明不但通过语言体现发布方立场,也在发布方和公众间产生对话性。官方声明虽常声称"权威、可信",但受其所处立场及具体的语言表达等因素影响,声明的实际效果未必完全符合发布方预期。

As a kind of special genre,official press releases usually carry abundant appraisal resources,which should be the concern of researchers. Starting from the perspective of ENGAGEMENT of the appraisal system in Systemic Functional Linguistics,this paper takes as its linguistic analysis data,the serial press releases about the MH370 Disappearance Incident published by Malaysia Airlines,in order to observe and track the authorial position and attitude changes revealed in the press releases. The paper concludes that monogloss and heterogloss in the press releases do not only reveal the publisher＇s stance,but also create discourse space and generate dialogistic potential between the publisher and the audience. Although official press releases usually allege to be ＂authoritative＂and ＂credible＂,the influence of the stance expressions and the misuses of language sometimes create different or even unexpected consequences.