In the following sections we will present a systematic overview of textual organization at and above clause level in Chinese.Our aim is to set out the different possibilities for the conflation of theme, transitivity and information structures in the clau...[继续阅读]

    本文补充分析了我们编辑教材中的四部影片的一些对话,试图进一步论证应用语言学理论分析语篇对揭示影片的内涵和描述人物性格的作用。教材中其余五部影片的对话分析,如果读者有兴趣,可参考原书。...[继续阅读]

    What is more worth noticing are the changes of the word-making principles.This part is the focus of Section 9.3.We first make a comparison between Chinese and Western languages in this respect in order to see clearly the features of the expansion of word-...[继续阅读]

    The Analects is a book collecting sayings mainly of Confucius and also of a few famous scholars of his time.The book was compiled by their disciples in the third century B.C., 200 years after Confucius passed away.Known as a great work of philosophy, repr...[继续阅读]

    Note:ellipsed Themes are enclosed in round brackets e.g.in (5).Theme NewPARAGRAPH Ⅰ1.dishang ‘on the earth’gui ‘ghosts’2.gui ‘the ghosts’nar ‘where’3.gui ‘the ghosts’renxin litou ‘in peoples minds’PARAGRAPH Ⅱ4.ni ‘you’xin ‘believe’5.(ni) ‘you’meng ‘dream...[继续阅读]

    When a language expands, it may spread from local to national, and then, to international or even global.Halliday (2003b) defines a “global language” to be “a tongue which has moved beyond its nation, to become ‘international’”, and says “if its range cov...[继续阅读]

    Our interpretation of the inscribed and evoked attitudes of this text is summarized in Table 14-1, and the rhetorical devices employed in Table 14-2 and 14-3 respectively.The summaries are made by following Martin and White (2005).Table 14-1 Inscribed and...[继续阅读]

    Halliday (1985) assumes that in all languages “the clause[1] has the character of a message”.In English, the clause is organized as a message by having two parts — Theme and Rheme.He defines Theme as “the element which serves as the point of departure of ...[继续阅读]

    本文讨论了目前中西方不同学者对语类概念和语类界定的不同看法,提出了用交际目的和结构潜势来界定报刊语类的假设。通过分析20世纪70年代到90年代不同年代的《人民日报》的二百多篇文章,证实了这两个因素可以作为报刊语类的...[继续阅读]

    选择的五段对话是情节发展中的几个关键场景,能大致揭示四个主要人物:里克 (Rick — Richard Blain)、伊尔萨 (Ilsa Lund)、拉兹罗 (Victor Laszlo)、雷诺 (Runo — Captain Louis Renault)之间的复杂关系,以及他们之间的矛盾和冲突如何得到解决或化解...[继续阅读]