基于及物性理论的童话故事与小说对比研究

Comparative Study on Fairy Tales and Novels Based on Transitivity Theory

童话与小说作为两种重要的文学体裁,有着不同的读者——童话针对儿童,而小说针对成年人。这一不同使得二者有着不尽相同的文体特征。本研究以韩礼德系统功能语言学中提出的及物性系统作为理论框架,应用定量和定性的方法对二者文体特征的不同特点在及物性方面的体现进行分析。研究发现及物性系统的不同过程在童话和小说两类不同体裁中的使用频率有所差别,并且同一类型的过程中的动词选择以及过程子类也不尽相同。

As two important genres of literature,fairy tale and novel generally have different receivers:one for children and the other for adults.Due to this difference,stylistic features of them are not the same.This study takes the Transitivity System in Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics as its theoretical framework,which is highly practicable in discourse analysis.In this study,both quantitative and qualitative method are adopted in order to find out the differences of the stylistic features between the two genres in terms of transitivity.It is found out that not only the distributions of different processes are different in the two genres,the choices of verbs and sub-categories in the same kind of process are also different.