中国功能语言学的先行者——庆贺陈望道《修辞学发凡》问世90周年

Pioneer of Functional Linguistics in China —— In Celebration of 90th Anniversary of the Publication of Chen Wangdao’s Introductiion to Rhetoric

2016年,我曾探讨系统功能语言学创始人韩礼德(M.A.K. Halliday)的学术思想,认为他的学术思想较多渊源于我国王力、罗常培和高名凯三位学者。文中也提及朱自清先生在给王力先生著作的序中,曾摘用望道先生倡导“功能中心说”的原话,但此后未能深入研究。通过阅读《修辞学发凡》,我发现望道先生运用功能主义的观点,讨论了功能与系统、口述语与书面语、文法学、物质与意义、语篇与语境、标准语和全球语等专题。这说明陈望道先生是中国功能语言学的先行者。

In 2016, I explored the academic thoughts of M.A.K. Halliday, the founder of systemic-functional linguistics, and expressed my view that many of his thoughts originated from three Chinese scholars, namely, Wang Li, Luo Changpei, and Gao Minkai. In my article, I also mentioned that in the preface for Wang Li’s publication on Chinese grammar, Zhu Ziqing quoted Chen Wangdao’s proposal on function-centered approach, but I haven’t gone further since then. Thanks to Professor Zhu Keyi’s invitation to attend the 12 th Forum on Chen Wangdao’s Rhetoric, I managed to review Chen’s Introduction to Rhetoric, and I noticed that based on his views on functionalism, Chen Wangdao managed to have discussed issues concerning function and system, spoken language and written language, grammatics, matter and meaning, text and context, standard language and global language. All this proves that Chen Wangdao is a pioneer of functional linguistics in China.