Interpersonal function is one of the metafunctions of Systemic Functional Linguistics, which plays an increasingly prominent role in stylistics study. Based on the theory of systematic function and interpersonal funct...Interpersonal function is one of the metafunctions of Systemic Functional Linguistics, which plays an increasingly prominent role in stylistics study. Based on the theory of systematic function and interpersonal function, this paper, taking Yang Xianyi's version of A Dream of Red Mansions as the corpus, probes into Wang Xifeng's character through the analysis of mood, modality and address forms in order to bring some enlightenment to the study of the Honglou Meng.展开更多
文摘Interpersonal function is one of the metafunctions of Systemic Functional Linguistics, which plays an increasingly prominent role in stylistics study. Based on the theory of systematic function and interpersonal function, this paper, taking Yang Xianyi's version of A Dream of Red Mansions as the corpus, probes into Wang Xifeng's character through the analysis of mood, modality and address forms in order to bring some enlightenment to the study of the Honglou Meng.