英语双重谓语句的语篇功能——语篇组构

The Textual Function of the Double Predicate——The Creation of Texture

本文拟从功能语言学的视角出发探讨双重谓语句在语篇组构中发挥怎样的功能。语篇有语篇特质。语篇特质区别语篇与非语篇。语篇特质部分地依靠衔接,部分地依靠结构。语篇必须连贯,而连贯必须衔接,但连贯要求更高,要语义恰当,言之成理。DP句以其语义特征在三方面为语篇组构作出贡献,即以其体现的结果期待说明,推动语篇进展,以DP或DP2与相应的词语构成衔接链连接两个次语篇,或者以显性的比较连接DP1前后的次语篇。研究显示,从语言的整体观出发,结合整个语篇和语境,由DP句衔接的两个次语篇会呈现深层的语义对比关系,从而使得两个次语篇不仅衔接而且连贯。语篇是一个丰富而多面的现象,需要多种语义资源加以组构,DP句只是以其独特的语义特征作为一种语义资源为语篇组构作出贡献。语篇是系统的实例,反过来说,系统是实例的潜势。语篇中的一切语义呼应以及随之产生的语义关系,包括DP句引发的语义关系,都是在实例系统中发生的。当我们动态地考察语篇时,不能忘却实例系统。

This paper aims to look into the functions the double-predicate clause performs in the creation of texture. Text has texture. Texture distinguishes text from non-text. The quality of text depends partly on cohesion and partly on structure. For a text to be coherent it must be cohesive, but it must be more besides. It must be semantically appropriate and it must make sense. The DP clause contributes to the creation of texture as a semantic resource in three ways: the result the DP clause embodies anticipates an explanation that follows, thus moving forward the text;the DP or DP2forms a cohesive link with words in a corresponding subtext, thus making the two sub-texts hang together;and it may serve to relate what goes before and after the point of time indicated by DP1in the text with explicit form of comparison. Furthermore, a holistic view of the text and its context will bring out a deeper semantic relationship of contrast between the two subtexts, which makes them not only cohesive, but also coherent. Text is a rich and many-faceted phenomenon, so it calls for all kinds of meaning-making resources to create its texture. The DP clause performs its own function to the creation of texture with its unique semantic and structural features.Text is the instantiation of system, or, alternatively, system is text potential. In the final analysis, all the resonances and semantic relationships resulting from them happen in instantial system, which we should not lose sight of in our dynamic study of text.