This section will address several subtopics:definitions of Topic given by various linguists; two types of Topical Theme — Contextual and Experiential; the sub-categories of Experiential Theme — Marked Theme, Preposed Theme and Thematic Equative; functions...[继续阅读]

    It is well known that every new technology brings about a whole cluster of technical terms into the language, as exemplified by the terms arising from the four great innovations in Ancient China, particularly from the improved invention of paper by Cai Lu...[继续阅读]

    This chapter is intended to generalize a tentative Thematic Network in Chinese based on the analyses of 10 written texts in various genres, namely, a news report, an instruction, a preface, an epilogue, an introduction to a library, an introduction to a f...[继续阅读]

    In English Theme is formed by the finite verb + subject,which differs from Chinese,whose Theme element is the same as that in declarative sentences.Compare:Declarative Interrogative[37]您(T, S) 不 认识 我。 您(T, S) 认识 我 吗?nin bu renshi wo.nin renshi wo ma?You (...[继续阅读]

    本章通过对《富春山居图》的分析,揭示了这幅画卷如何使用绘画、题跋、印章这些不同的符号资源,共同构建作品的不同画面含义、画外含义和历史含义,它们又如何将不同的模态成分编制成一个连贯的整体,虽然有些符号,比如有些印...[继续阅读]

    上面我们提到,多模态语篇分析者使用最多的就是系统功能语言学理论延伸出来的分析框架。为什么会出现这样的情况呢?这是因为,这个理论创立的目的就是为了“语篇分析”。学派创始人韩礼德特别强调:系统功能语法是一种“语篇...[继续阅读]

    Our sketchy investigations into the diachronic linguistic research in China, we hope, can verify our initial hypothesis:there may be a functional trend in the study of the Chinese language — in the embryonic period, functionalism remained as a strong unde...[继续阅读]

    系统功能语言学认为语言是由三个纯理功能实现的意义潜势系统构成的,而这三个纯理功能又受制于情景语境和文化语境(Halliday 1994)。文化语境代表我们生活中各种社会活动的抽象意义,它涉及很多层面(Halliday 2002),至少涉及在某个文...[继续阅读]

    The chapter has taken from the internet for analysis a brief biological commentary on Confucius written by Richard Hooker (1996; updated 1999 & 2005).The choice of analyzing a text on Confucius has been inspired by Martins point of view on PDA (positi...[继续阅读]

    Before setting up the framework for the current study, we will briefly review the two main relevant theoretical traditions:(a) theories of clause structure in Chinese; and (b) functional theories of clause structure....[继续阅读]