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.
