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Systemic-functional grammar The Functional Approach Functional sentence perspective Theme and rheme Systemic-functional grammar Ideational Function Interpersonal Function Textual Function Functional sentence perspective 布拉格学派的一种语言分析理论，描述信息在句子中是怎样分布的，尤其研究已知（或所给）信息和新的信息在话语中分布的效果。已知信息（在句子功能观里称主位theme）,指对读者或听者来说不是新的信息，述位（rheme）指新的信息。 Functional sentence perspective A type of linguistic analysis associated with the Prague School which describes how information is distributed in sentences.FSP deals particularly with the effect of the distribution of known (or given) information and new information in DISCOURSE. The known information (known as theme in FSP),refers to information that is not new to the reader or listener.The rheme refers to information that is new. Information structureGiven and new 从前有座山 山上有个庙 庙里有个老和尚 老和尚给小和尚讲故事 故事里说 从前有座山… The new information of a clause may become the given information of the next clause in an utterance so as to make a group of clauses cohesive in meaning. Conflict information 从前有座山 山上有座庙 庙前有条路 路在山半腰 句子功能观与传统的句子语法分析不同。主词-述词之间区别并不总是主位述位对立。例如： New info: to be transmitted to the reader or hearer. Sally stands on the table. Theme Rheme On the table stands Sally. Theme Rheme Systemic-functional grammar Halliday’s Systemic-functional grammar is a socially oriented functional linguistic approach, and as the name suggests, it actually has two components: systemic grammar and functional grammar. They are two inseparable parts for an integral framework in Halliday’s linguistic inquiry. Systemic grammar Systemic grammar aims to explain the internal relations in language as a system network, or meaning potential. What is functional grammar? Functional grammar aims to reveal that language is a means of social interaction,based on the assumption that language system and the forms that make it up are inescapably determined by the users or functions which they serve. looks at how language works in terms of the functi