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
An Introduction to Functional Grammar(《功能语法导论》,简称《导论》)是Halliday的代表作。胡壮麟教授称此书为集中体现Halliday语言学思想的"集大成者"。这一点反映在三个方面:一是他在伦敦学派的基础上发展来的、关于...An Introduction to Functional Grammar(《功能语法导论》,简称《导论》)是Halliday的代表作。胡壮麟教授称此书为集中体现Halliday语言学思想的"集大成者"。这一点反映在三个方面:一是他在伦敦学派的基础上发展来的、关于系统和功能语言观的大量前期论述(包括来自学派内部诸多追随者的研究)。展开更多
The essay aims to apply different approaches to grammar to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a piece of a student's writing from both sentence level and textual level, and states that systemic functional gra...The essay aims to apply different approaches to grammar to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a piece of a student's writing from both sentence level and textual level, and states that systemic functional grammar is a useful tool in analyzing students writing.展开更多
Grammar is the system of a language.In this paper,the author will discuss the development of grammar and focus on functionalist views on the structure of English,represented by M.A.K Halliday,covering the fundamental ...Grammar is the system of a language.In this paper,the author will discuss the development of grammar and focus on functionalist views on the structure of English,represented by M.A.K Halliday,covering the fundamental concepts of functional grammar,especially the three metafunctions:textual,interpersonal and ideational function.展开更多
The study aims to make a comparative study of 3 translated versions of Niao Ming Chien written by Chinese ancient poet Wang Wei from the perspective of ideational grammatical metaphor for the purpose of finding out ho...The study aims to make a comparative study of 3 translated versions of Niao Ming Chien written by Chinese ancient poet Wang Wei from the perspective of ideational grammatical metaphor for the purpose of finding out how grammatical metaphor can provide a peculiar insight to the translation of Chinese poems.展开更多
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the functional approach and cognitive approach to the nature of language and its relation to other aspects of human cognition.The paper starts with a brief discussion of t...This paper presents a comprehensive review of the functional approach and cognitive approach to the nature of language and its relation to other aspects of human cognition.The paper starts with a brief discussion of the origins and the core tenets of the two approaches in Section 1.Section 2 discusses the similarities and differences between the three full-fledged structural functional grammars subsumed in the functional approach:Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar(SFG),Dik's Functional Grammar(FG),and Van Valin's Role and Reference Grammar(RRG).Section 3 deals with the major features of the three cognitive frameworks:Langacker's Cognitive Grammar(CG),Goldberg's Cognitive Construction Grammar(CCG),and Croft's Radical Construction Grammar(RCG).Section 4 compares the two approaches and attempts to provide a unified functional-cognitive grammar.In the last section,the author concludes the paper with remarks on the unidirectional shift from functional grammar to cognitive grammar that may indicate a reinterpretation of the traditional relationship between functional and cognitive models of grammar.展开更多
This paper explores how reciprocal pattern of power is realized in fictional texts.Taking a few episodes from the novel The Thorn Birds and the transitivity process as analytical framework,this paper holds that recipr...This paper explores how reciprocal pattern of power is realized in fictional texts.Taking a few episodes from the novel The Thorn Birds and the transitivity process as analytical framework,this paper holds that reciprocal patterns of power may be mutual-targeting or disjoint.A systematic network of both non-reciprocal and reciprocal pattern of power in fictional works is drawn on the basis of the analysis.展开更多
This study investigates the language strategies adopted by the major British political parties in their 2010 general election man-ifestoes to persuade and influence the public in order to win their support.The way in ...This study investigates the language strategies adopted by the major British political parties in their 2010 general election man-ifestoes to persuade and influence the public in order to win their support.The way in which interpersonal meanings are expressed in thetexts is examined in accordance with the three aspects of modality as outlined in Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar:orientation,value and type.Corresponding with these three aspects,it is found that subjective orientation,median value,and obligation are used ex-tensively by all three parties for persuasive purposes.This demonstrates that modal choices are conditioned or determined by the writers' communicative intentions and by non-linguistic factors such as their social positions and political stances.展开更多
The paper first conducts a general background of Appraisal Theory, then elaborates a detailed review of literature on Appraisal Theory and finally explores the further trends.
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An Introduction to Functional Grammar(《功能语法导论》,简称《导论》)是Halliday的代表作。胡壮麟教授称此书为集中体现Halliday语言学思想的"集大成者"。这一点反映在三个方面:一是他在伦敦学派的基础上发展来的、关于系统和功能语言观的大量前期论述(包括来自学派内部诸多追随者的研究)。
文摘The essay aims to apply different approaches to grammar to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a piece of a student's writing from both sentence level and textual level, and states that systemic functional grammar is a useful tool in analyzing students writing.
文摘Grammar is the system of a language.In this paper,the author will discuss the development of grammar and focus on functionalist views on the structure of English,represented by M.A.K Halliday,covering the fundamental concepts of functional grammar,especially the three metafunctions:textual,interpersonal and ideational function.
文摘The study aims to make a comparative study of 3 translated versions of Niao Ming Chien written by Chinese ancient poet Wang Wei from the perspective of ideational grammatical metaphor for the purpose of finding out how grammatical metaphor can provide a peculiar insight to the translation of Chinese poems.
文摘This paper presents a comprehensive review of the functional approach and cognitive approach to the nature of language and its relation to other aspects of human cognition.The paper starts with a brief discussion of the origins and the core tenets of the two approaches in Section 1.Section 2 discusses the similarities and differences between the three full-fledged structural functional grammars subsumed in the functional approach:Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar(SFG),Dik's Functional Grammar(FG),and Van Valin's Role and Reference Grammar(RRG).Section 3 deals with the major features of the three cognitive frameworks:Langacker's Cognitive Grammar(CG),Goldberg's Cognitive Construction Grammar(CCG),and Croft's Radical Construction Grammar(RCG).Section 4 compares the two approaches and attempts to provide a unified functional-cognitive grammar.In the last section,the author concludes the paper with remarks on the unidirectional shift from functional grammar to cognitive grammar that may indicate a reinterpretation of the traditional relationship between functional and cognitive models of grammar.
文摘This paper explores how reciprocal pattern of power is realized in fictional texts.Taking a few episodes from the novel The Thorn Birds and the transitivity process as analytical framework,this paper holds that reciprocal patterns of power may be mutual-targeting or disjoint.A systematic network of both non-reciprocal and reciprocal pattern of power in fictional works is drawn on the basis of the analysis.
文摘This study investigates the language strategies adopted by the major British political parties in their 2010 general election man-ifestoes to persuade and influence the public in order to win their support.The way in which interpersonal meanings are expressed in thetexts is examined in accordance with the three aspects of modality as outlined in Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar:orientation,value and type.Corresponding with these three aspects,it is found that subjective orientation,median value,and obligation are used ex-tensively by all three parties for persuasive purposes.This demonstrates that modal choices are conditioned or determined by the writers' communicative intentions and by non-linguistic factors such as their social positions and political stances.
文摘The paper first conducts a general background of Appraisal Theory, then elaborates a detailed review of literature on Appraisal Theory and finally explores the further trends.
