从系统功能角度对英文景点介绍文本体裁分析.pdfVIP

MA Dissertation of Chongqing University Abstract Abstract With the rapid development of tourism, tourist information texts have been taken as the most direct and common information carrier in the communication between the promoters of tourism products and potential consumers. And with the internationalization of tourism resources, English tourist information text (ETIT) will play an important role in driving tourism products to the global market. Based on systemic functional approach, this study conducts the analysis of corpus composed of 30 ETITs from English tourist websites. Hasan’s Generic Structural Potential (GSP) model and Halliday’s systemic functional grammar are used to analyze the macro structure and micro linguistic features of ETIT respectively. This study tends to reveal the GSP as well as the linguistic forms of this genre, and explain how the communicative purposes of this genre are realized through language. The findings show that the genre of ETIT consists of 13 structural elements, among which 3 are obligatory and 10 are optional. These elements serve the communicative purposes of informing, attracting and persuading. Further analysis on the sequence and iteration of these elements leads to the generation of GSP for ETIT. The analysis of transitivity shows that material and relational processes are dominant, and that circumstantial elements of space and time are used more frequently. These are the main forms through which the ideational function of this genre is realized. Investigation on interpersonal metafunction reveals that declarative clauses are employed to give information and express interperso