For language users,meaning is the central fact about language,and meaning emerges from a seamless union of wording and context.Functional Grammar attempts to face that uncomfortable fact head-on and to establish a uni...For language users,meaning is the central fact about language,and meaning emerges from a seamless union of wording and context.Functional Grammar attempts to face that uncomfortable fact head-on and to establish a unified model of language which in principle allows the links to be made within the same description.展开更多
There is a separable and combinable object NP construction in modern Chinese.The modifier or the central part of it can be moved forward to the beginning as the topic.The combined construction delivers the objective e...There is a separable and combinable object NP construction in modern Chinese.The modifier or the central part of it can be moved forward to the beginning as the topic.The combined construction delivers the objective expression,while the separated construction implies the subjective understanding.The transformation is driven by pragmatic factors.Firstly,the article discusses the combined and the separated constructions meanings.Secondly,the article analyzes the form differences which are caused by their meanings.At last,the article discusses the discourse function variation caused by the form transformation and introduces the objective and subjective differences of human natural language expression.展开更多
文摘For language users,meaning is the central fact about language,and meaning emerges from a seamless union of wording and context.Functional Grammar attempts to face that uncomfortable fact head-on and to establish a unified model of language which in principle allows the links to be made within the same description.
文摘There is a separable and combinable object NP construction in modern Chinese.The modifier or the central part of it can be moved forward to the beginning as the topic.The combined construction delivers the objective expression,while the separated construction implies the subjective understanding.The transformation is driven by pragmatic factors.Firstly,the article discusses the combined and the separated constructions meanings.Secondly,the article analyzes the form differences which are caused by their meanings.At last,the article discusses the discourse function variation caused by the form transformation and introduces the objective and subjective differences of human natural language expression.
