人际意义与语篇的建构

Interpersonal Meaning and the Construction of Discourse

语言交流的重要目的在于建立并维持适宜的人际关系.在语言交流的过程中,交际参与者根据自己的言语角色实施一定的言语功能,实现以信息或物品与服务为交流物的意义交换.交际参与者通过人际意义潜势所提供的语法资源在互动中建构语篇.一方面,语气系统使小句具有对话性,从而使交际参与者之间的互动和意义磋商成为可能.另一方面,情态系统在表达发话者的态度和评价的同时,也影响或引发了受话者的态度和行为,确保了语言交流的合意性和有效性.同时,人际语法隐喻使语法资源得到合理的配置,从而使语篇准确地反映语言交流的意图.

One of the major purposes of linguistic interaction is to establish and maintain a desirable interpersonal relationship. In the process of interaction, communication participants takes on different speech roles and accordingly carry out appropriate speech functions in the exchange of information or goods and services. Communication participants construct discourse by means of the grammatical resources provided by the interpersonal meaning potential. On the one hand, the mood system provides the basis of meaning exchange, and thus enables interaction or negotiation to take place between communication participants. On the other hand, the modality system, by expressing the addresser's attitudes towards, or evaluation of the proposition or proposal in question, influences or evokes the attitudes or behavior of the addressee, and thus contributes to the desirability and validity of interaction. Meanwhile, interpersonal grammatical metaphor organizes discourse in a way that conforms to the interpersonal intention of discourse by regulating the appropriate assignment of grammatical resources, in particular mood functions.