In China,English teachers usually take a three-step approach to grammar teaching,namely,the presentation—practice—production principle(3P Principle).This method consists of both“morphology”and“syntax.”It adopts ...In China,English teachers usually take a three-step approach to grammar teaching,namely,the presentation—practice—production principle(3P Principle).This method consists of both“morphology”and“syntax.”It adopts the traditional mode of grammar teaching,including knowledge presentation,grammar exercises,and grammatical competence production,which will inevitably lead to time consumption and low efficiency in grammar learning.This study is about cultivating English majors'grammatical competence through the theoretical mode of grammar teaching.The research results show that the theoretical mode of grammar teaching helps cultivate learners'grammatical competence.展开更多
This paper attempts to demonstrate how certain theories of Halliday's SFL can analyze the implicit subject of the short story Cat in the Rain written by Ernest Hemingway. The paper will explore in two areas of the...This paper attempts to demonstrate how certain theories of Halliday's SFL can analyze the implicit subject of the short story Cat in the Rain written by Ernest Hemingway. The paper will explore in two areas of the tenor of interpersonal function and transitivity of experiential meta-function. The purpose of the paper tries to verify unconcerned relationship among people in it and the writer's writing style-iceberg rule and the operative theory of SFL on the analysis of literary text.展开更多
50 years has seen Systemic-Functional Grammar(SFG)growing into its prosperity. With the efforts of Halliday and many other linguists, SFG has developed from Scale and Category Grammar to Systemic Grammar and then to F...50 years has seen Systemic-Functional Grammar(SFG)growing into its prosperity. With the efforts of Halliday and many other linguists, SFG has developed from Scale and Category Grammar to Systemic Grammar and then to Functional Grammar. The development of this general linguistic theory's features and framework is the main focus of this study. SFG views language as a social semiotic resource people use to express meanings in context.展开更多
Systemic-functional linguistics considers function and semantics as the basis of human language and communicative activity. In recent years, Systemic-functional linguistics has been applied in such areas as natural la...Systemic-functional linguistics considers function and semantics as the basis of human language and communicative activity. In recent years, Systemic-functional linguistics has been applied in such areas as natural language processing, early language learning, language education, stylistics, foreign language teaching, translation and stylistics. It sheds new light on the further application of this linguistic theory in other fields.展开更多
The spokesman's language is official,flexible and public-oriented,to study how it makes sense through varied linguis-tic function is of great importance.Under the framework of systemic-functional grammar,this thes...The spokesman's language is official,flexible and public-oriented,to study how it makes sense through varied linguis-tic function is of great importance.Under the framework of systemic-functional grammar,this thesis focuses on the linguistic fea-tures of American spokesman's language from perspectives of ideational,interpersonal and textual functions.This thesis includes three parts.Part One introduces background and layout of the study.Part Two is a analysis of America spokesperson's language by SF grammar.Part Three ends with the conclusion.展开更多
Following Halliday’s view that "if a text is to be described at all,then it should be described properly;and this means by the theories and methods developed in linguistics"(Halliday,2002),we use the theore...Following Halliday’s view that "if a text is to be described at all,then it should be described properly;and this means by the theories and methods developed in linguistics"(Halliday,2002),we use the theoretical framework and methods developed in Systemic-Functional linguistics to explore "the socio-historical and ideological environment" for the "engendering" (ibid.) of the Analects,the particular contextual features of this great work,the hierarchical structure of Confucius’ main teachings,and also the ways of realizing his ideas in this book by the lexico-grammatical choices.We also discuss the implication and relevance of Confucianism to China and the present world.展开更多
This paper adopts Halliday’s systemic functional grammar as the theoretical framework to make a contrastive analysis of the interpersonal meaning of Environmental Protection Public Service Advertising from the perspe...This paper adopts Halliday’s systemic functional grammar as the theoretical framework to make a contrastive analysis of the interpersonal meaning of Environmental Protection Public Service Advertising from the perspective of mood and modality.It is found that there are both similarities and differences in the realization of interpersonal meaning in the discourse of both English and Chinese environmental protection public service advertising.In terms of mood,both tend to use declarative,imperative,interrogative mood,among which the declarative mood is the most frequently used,while the imperative mood is the second.In the aspect of modality,the use of modal words in English environmental protection advertising language is more abundant,and it is customary to use modal words with low emotional value to realize interpersonal meaning,while Chinese advertisements prefer more modality words with high emotional value.展开更多
Systemic-Functional Grammar is a sociologically oriented functional linguistic approach developed by M. A. K. Halli day. One of the focuses of SFG is register, which is composed of field, tenor and mode. Halliday part...Systemic-Functional Grammar is a sociologically oriented functional linguistic approach developed by M. A. K. Halli day. One of the focuses of SFG is register, which is composed of field, tenor and mode. Halliday particularly developed these three main parameters, which are useful for characterizing the nature of the social transaction of the participants. In this essay, the method of tenor is used for analyzing Barack Obama's speech on Boston Marathon bombing event to explore how Obama trans fers his ideas to audience in order to achieve his goals.展开更多
The introduction of Travel Company is a mirror which can display the culture of Travel Company and it is crucial when travelers make a choice. In order to make a better understanding of different introductions under d...The introduction of Travel Company is a mirror which can display the culture of Travel Company and it is crucial when travelers make a choice. In order to make a better understanding of different introductions under different cultures, an analysis has been made between the introductions of two travel companies in China and South America respectively from the perspective of systemic-functional grammar(SFG).展开更多
Taking the answer of Foreign Ministry Spokesman as material,the essay intends to study the metafunctions in diplomatic discourse from the perspective of Systematic-Functional Grammar. According to the study of transit...Taking the answer of Foreign Ministry Spokesman as material,the essay intends to study the metafunctions in diplomatic discourse from the perspective of Systematic-Functional Grammar. According to the study of transitivity,mood,modality and thematic progression patterns in the material,it is found that the metafunctions are achieved in diplomatic discourse appropriately,and help to strengthen the preciseness, reliability and systematicness of spokesman's words.展开更多
Under the guidance of Systemic-Functional Grammar(SFG),cohesion is applied to analyze the selected context.Cohesion plays a great role in organizing a whole context and it can be further divided into grammatical cohes...Under the guidance of Systemic-Functional Grammar(SFG),cohesion is applied to analyze the selected context.Cohesion plays a great role in organizing a whole context and it can be further divided into grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion.Main ideas of cohesion are illustrated and made it for application,which employs British children's literature-The Water Babies as the object.The research method adopted here is mainly quantitative.Through analyzing selected sections,it is obvious that cohesion helps readers understand the contexts better.Besides,the use of cohesion makes the context more precise and compact.For context,the role of cohesion is irreplaceable.展开更多
In this paper, we present a comparative study of Obama's closing statements in the presidential debates, in particular, the first and third debates with Mitt Romney in 2012. Obama was considered to have done poorl...In this paper, we present a comparative study of Obama's closing statements in the presidential debates, in particular, the first and third debates with Mitt Romney in 2012. Obama was considered to have done poorly in the first debate, but very well in the third debate. A systemic-functional analysis of Obama's closing statements in these two debates reveals the lexicogrammatical and rhetorical choices which contribute to the functional and aesthetic value of Obama's debate performance.展开更多
Systemic Functional Linguistics is known to people by its special functionalism and social meaning. The study of Systemic Functional Linguistics is also accepted by more and more people. In addition, it means a lot to...Systemic Functional Linguistics is known to people by its special functionalism and social meaning. The study of Systemic Functional Linguistics is also accepted by more and more people. In addition, it means a lot to the learning of lexis, English writing and extensive reading.展开更多
Based on M.A.K.Halliday's systemic-functional grammar,the paper puts forward some ideas on how to develop reading skills,analyzing how the ideational,interpersonal and textual functions are reflected and their int...Based on M.A.K.Halliday's systemic-functional grammar,the paper puts forward some ideas on how to develop reading skills,analyzing how the ideational,interpersonal and textual functions are reflected and their interrelationship in reading materials,with an attempt to improve the reading ability.展开更多
As one genre of literature,poetry is the elite in both Chinese language and its culture. With its unique characteristics of metrical and form regulations and the beauty of its simplicity and conciseness,Chinese Tang p...As one genre of literature,poetry is the elite in both Chinese language and its culture. With its unique characteristics of metrical and form regulations and the beauty of its simplicity and conciseness,Chinese Tang poetry is one of the brightest pearls in the world literature treasury.Translating as a purposeful activity was originated from the functionalist approaches to translation.From the perspective of functional grammar,this thesis attempts to study two translation versions of Song You Ren written by Li Bai. More emphasis has been put on the similarities and differentiations of the textual analysis. Through the analysis and compari son between the two translation versions,it is found that functional grammar is not only helpful to have a deep understanding of the discourse,but will also throw some light upon the practice of translation.展开更多
News is very important in our daily life, which we can get sufficient information from different kinds of news. In this paper, I take Halliday's systemic-functional grammar as the theoretical foundation to analyze...News is very important in our daily life, which we can get sufficient information from different kinds of news. In this paper, I take Halliday's systemic-functional grammar as the theoretical foundation to analyze the news. Halliday categorizes the metafunctions into experiential function, interpersonal function and textual function. Here, I will make a detailed analysis of the English news reports in China Daily from transitivity of experiential function to find out the linguistic characteristics of the English news reports.展开更多
Systemic-functional linguistics is one of the most influential linguistics schools in the recent 20 years.Though M.A.K.Halliday,the founder of Systemic-functional Linguistics,has not taken up any language teaching res...Systemic-functional linguistics is one of the most influential linguistics schools in the recent 20 years.Though M.A.K.Halliday,the founder of Systemic-functional Linguistics,has not taken up any language teaching research by himself,he has been putting great emphasis on language teaching and language learning.With the increasing influence of Systemic-functional Linguistics,more and more applied linguists and foreign language teachers are trying to use his theories to solve the problems in language teaching and learning,and have achieved a lot.展开更多
This paper adopts Halliday’s systemic functional grammar as the theoretical framework to make an analysis of interpersonal meaning based on an English advertisement from the perspective of mood,modality,and appraisal...This paper adopts Halliday’s systemic functional grammar as the theoretical framework to make an analysis of interpersonal meaning based on an English advertisement from the perspective of mood,modality,and appraisal.In this way,it attempts to find out how interpersonal meaning is realized in this advertisement and how the advertising purpose is reached.Findings reveal that this advertisement contains a lot of personal resources to persuade readers to accept what is advertised.It presents advertisers’views which exact impacts on readers’attitudes and behaviors.Interrogative mood is frequently used and modal words are abundant.In terms of appraisal,high emotional values are employed.These resources together contribute to achieving the advertisement’s goal and realizing interpersonal meaning.展开更多
基金funded by the 2022 Hunan Vocational Education Teaching Reform Research Project“Research on the Cultivation of Critical Thinking Ability for Business English Majors in Vocational Colleges Under the Concept of Curriculum Ideology and Politics (Project approval No.:ZJGB2022058)”the 2022 General Funded Project of Hunan Social Science Achievement Review Committee“Research on the Development and Diagnostic Evaluation of Critical Thinking Ability Scale for English Learners based on CSE (Project approval No.:XSP22YBZ086).”。
文摘In China,English teachers usually take a three-step approach to grammar teaching,namely,the presentation—practice—production principle(3P Principle).This method consists of both“morphology”and“syntax.”It adopts the traditional mode of grammar teaching,including knowledge presentation,grammar exercises,and grammatical competence production,which will inevitably lead to time consumption and low efficiency in grammar learning.This study is about cultivating English majors'grammatical competence through the theoretical mode of grammar teaching.The research results show that the theoretical mode of grammar teaching helps cultivate learners'grammatical competence.
文摘This paper attempts to demonstrate how certain theories of Halliday's SFL can analyze the implicit subject of the short story Cat in the Rain written by Ernest Hemingway. The paper will explore in two areas of the tenor of interpersonal function and transitivity of experiential meta-function. The purpose of the paper tries to verify unconcerned relationship among people in it and the writer's writing style-iceberg rule and the operative theory of SFL on the analysis of literary text.
文摘50 years has seen Systemic-Functional Grammar(SFG)growing into its prosperity. With the efforts of Halliday and many other linguists, SFG has developed from Scale and Category Grammar to Systemic Grammar and then to Functional Grammar. The development of this general linguistic theory's features and framework is the main focus of this study. SFG views language as a social semiotic resource people use to express meanings in context.
文摘Systemic-functional linguistics considers function and semantics as the basis of human language and communicative activity. In recent years, Systemic-functional linguistics has been applied in such areas as natural language processing, early language learning, language education, stylistics, foreign language teaching, translation and stylistics. It sheds new light on the further application of this linguistic theory in other fields.
文摘The spokesman's language is official,flexible and public-oriented,to study how it makes sense through varied linguis-tic function is of great importance.Under the framework of systemic-functional grammar,this thesis focuses on the linguistic fea-tures of American spokesman's language from perspectives of ideational,interpersonal and textual functions.This thesis includes three parts.Part One introduces background and layout of the study.Part Two is a analysis of America spokesperson's language by SF grammar.Part Three ends with the conclusion.
文摘Following Halliday’s view that "if a text is to be described at all,then it should be described properly;and this means by the theories and methods developed in linguistics"(Halliday,2002),we use the theoretical framework and methods developed in Systemic-Functional linguistics to explore "the socio-historical and ideological environment" for the "engendering" (ibid.) of the Analects,the particular contextual features of this great work,the hierarchical structure of Confucius’ main teachings,and also the ways of realizing his ideas in this book by the lexico-grammatical choices.We also discuss the implication and relevance of Confucianism to China and the present world.
文摘This paper adopts Halliday’s systemic functional grammar as the theoretical framework to make a contrastive analysis of the interpersonal meaning of Environmental Protection Public Service Advertising from the perspective of mood and modality.It is found that there are both similarities and differences in the realization of interpersonal meaning in the discourse of both English and Chinese environmental protection public service advertising.In terms of mood,both tend to use declarative,imperative,interrogative mood,among which the declarative mood is the most frequently used,while the imperative mood is the second.In the aspect of modality,the use of modal words in English environmental protection advertising language is more abundant,and it is customary to use modal words with low emotional value to realize interpersonal meaning,while Chinese advertisements prefer more modality words with high emotional value.
文摘Systemic-Functional Grammar is a sociologically oriented functional linguistic approach developed by M. A. K. Halli day. One of the focuses of SFG is register, which is composed of field, tenor and mode. Halliday particularly developed these three main parameters, which are useful for characterizing the nature of the social transaction of the participants. In this essay, the method of tenor is used for analyzing Barack Obama's speech on Boston Marathon bombing event to explore how Obama trans fers his ideas to audience in order to achieve his goals.
文摘The introduction of Travel Company is a mirror which can display the culture of Travel Company and it is crucial when travelers make a choice. In order to make a better understanding of different introductions under different cultures, an analysis has been made between the introductions of two travel companies in China and South America respectively from the perspective of systemic-functional grammar(SFG).
文摘Taking the answer of Foreign Ministry Spokesman as material,the essay intends to study the metafunctions in diplomatic discourse from the perspective of Systematic-Functional Grammar. According to the study of transitivity,mood,modality and thematic progression patterns in the material,it is found that the metafunctions are achieved in diplomatic discourse appropriately,and help to strengthen the preciseness, reliability and systematicness of spokesman's words.
文摘Under the guidance of Systemic-Functional Grammar(SFG),cohesion is applied to analyze the selected context.Cohesion plays a great role in organizing a whole context and it can be further divided into grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion.Main ideas of cohesion are illustrated and made it for application,which employs British children's literature-The Water Babies as the object.The research method adopted here is mainly quantitative.Through analyzing selected sections,it is obvious that cohesion helps readers understand the contexts better.Besides,the use of cohesion makes the context more precise and compact.For context,the role of cohesion is irreplaceable.
文摘In this paper, we present a comparative study of Obama's closing statements in the presidential debates, in particular, the first and third debates with Mitt Romney in 2012. Obama was considered to have done poorly in the first debate, but very well in the third debate. A systemic-functional analysis of Obama's closing statements in these two debates reveals the lexicogrammatical and rhetorical choices which contribute to the functional and aesthetic value of Obama's debate performance.
文摘Systemic Functional Linguistics is known to people by its special functionalism and social meaning. The study of Systemic Functional Linguistics is also accepted by more and more people. In addition, it means a lot to the learning of lexis, English writing and extensive reading.
文摘Based on M.A.K.Halliday's systemic-functional grammar,the paper puts forward some ideas on how to develop reading skills,analyzing how the ideational,interpersonal and textual functions are reflected and their interrelationship in reading materials,with an attempt to improve the reading ability.
文摘As one genre of literature,poetry is the elite in both Chinese language and its culture. With its unique characteristics of metrical and form regulations and the beauty of its simplicity and conciseness,Chinese Tang poetry is one of the brightest pearls in the world literature treasury.Translating as a purposeful activity was originated from the functionalist approaches to translation.From the perspective of functional grammar,this thesis attempts to study two translation versions of Song You Ren written by Li Bai. More emphasis has been put on the similarities and differentiations of the textual analysis. Through the analysis and compari son between the two translation versions,it is found that functional grammar is not only helpful to have a deep understanding of the discourse,but will also throw some light upon the practice of translation.
文摘News is very important in our daily life, which we can get sufficient information from different kinds of news. In this paper, I take Halliday's systemic-functional grammar as the theoretical foundation to analyze the news. Halliday categorizes the metafunctions into experiential function, interpersonal function and textual function. Here, I will make a detailed analysis of the English news reports in China Daily from transitivity of experiential function to find out the linguistic characteristics of the English news reports.
文摘Systemic-functional linguistics is one of the most influential linguistics schools in the recent 20 years.Though M.A.K.Halliday,the founder of Systemic-functional Linguistics,has not taken up any language teaching research by himself,he has been putting great emphasis on language teaching and language learning.With the increasing influence of Systemic-functional Linguistics,more and more applied linguists and foreign language teachers are trying to use his theories to solve the problems in language teaching and learning,and have achieved a lot.
文摘This paper adopts Halliday’s systemic functional grammar as the theoretical framework to make an analysis of interpersonal meaning based on an English advertisement from the perspective of mood,modality,and appraisal.In this way,it attempts to find out how interpersonal meaning is realized in this advertisement and how the advertising purpose is reached.Findings reveal that this advertisement contains a lot of personal resources to persuade readers to accept what is advertised.It presents advertisers’views which exact impacts on readers’attitudes and behaviors.Interrogative mood is frequently used and modal words are abundant.In terms of appraisal,high emotional values are employed.These resources together contribute to achieving the advertisement’s goal and realizing interpersonal meaning.
