选择的三段对话描述了老年人之间的纯真爱情,反映了不同年龄段的人之间的友谊和矛盾。这三段对话发生在影片的几个主要人物之间(Norman Thayer、 Ethel Thayer、 Chelsea Thayer、 Bill Ray、 Billy Ray),是影片内容的浓缩。对话给人印象最深的...[继续阅读]

    Stage 1:Impact of ConfuciusThe author`s appreciative attitudinal orientation is clearly expressed from the first three clauses right from the beginning:Confucius laid down a pattern of thinking followed by more people for more generations than any other h...[继续阅读]

    下面将阐述系统功能语言学家韩礼德、韩茹凯、马丁及埃金斯对语类的看法,及笔者对这个概念的粗浅认识。...[继续阅读]

    In English, as Halliday explains, the WH element is usually what the speaker is concerned about,hence the Theme.On the other hand,interrogative expressions (inter.exp.) such as “怎么样”(zenmeyang, how),“为什么”(weishenme, why),etc.in Chinese can occur before or...[继续阅读]

    In this chapter we will focus on the analysis of some linguistic features in episodes of film dialogues from the SFL perspective.We shall follow the procedures as below in analyzing film discourses (Hereafter, FD):1) Analysis of the three variables of the...[继续阅读]

    There are several aspects of systemic-functional linguistic theory employed in this chapter:Halliday`s concept of context of culture and that of context of situation (H & H 1985), and the concept of genre and the appraisal theory developed by Martin a...[继续阅读]

    This chapter is inspired by Hallidays research on English in the paper “Written language, standard language, global language” (2003b), where he studies how English evolves from a local to a national and finally to a global language.He emphasizes that this...[继续阅读]

    Systemic Functional Linguistics (see for example Halliday 1994), originally developed for linguistic analysis, has been found by many to be an appropriate theory for interpreting other social semiotics such as visual, verbal or audio modes (O`Toole 1994; ...[继续阅读]

    The definitions of the grammatical category “subject” given by various scholars and especially Lü Shuxiang`s criteria for identifying the “subject” of a Chinese sentence convince me that the Theme-Rheme structure is also followed in the organization of a ...[继续阅读]

    We can arrive at some conclusions from the above discussions.To begin with, our analysis of this text may help us to understand more profoundly the nature of a text in two aspects.First, it provides evidence that discourses or texts are both ideological a...[继续阅读]