王力与韩礼德汉语语气观比较研究

Wang Li and Halliday: A Comparison Between Their Conceptions of Chinese Modality System

韩礼德在上个世纪40年代曾师从王力先生。韩礼德的汉语语气观集中体现在50年代中期所写的博士论文《元朝秘史的汉语语言》和《现代汉语的语法范畴》里。通过对比王力与韩礼德的语气系统,可以清晰地看到,王力以情绪为分类依据的汉语语气观对韩礼德的汉语语气观有着深远的影响。在这个时期,韩礼德接受了王力的语气为句法范畴的思想,并开始从功能角度突出言语者的参与和对语境的解释,从而为以后从人际意义角度提出角色关系语气观奠定了基础。

Halliday studied Chinese linguistics as a graduate student under Wang Li in the 1940s. Hallidays conception of the Chinese modality system, mainly presented in The Language of the Chinese'Secret History of the Mongols'(1959) and Grammatical Categories in Modern Chinese (1956), was deeply influenced by Wang Li, who classified Chinese modalities by emotions. Comparing their works, we can see that Halliday agreed with Wang Li on the view that modality should be studied as a syntactic phenomenon. Besides, Halliday began to emphasize the function of speaker as an'intruder'and contextualization in language analysis, from the functional point of view. These laid a foundation for his later conception of modality as role relationships.