政治辩论语篇中人际语法隐喻功能的的分析.ppt

A Functional Analysis of Interpersonal GM in Political Debates 政治辩论语篇中的人际语法隐喻功能分析 Presented byZhang Zhixiang  The Significance of the Study 1. The functional analysis of interpersonal GM could enable us to understand the interpersonal meaning of the political debate from a new perspective, which elaborates the subtleties of language use in this kind of genre and helps us have a better understanding of it. 2. This study demonstrates that Systemic Functional Grammar, characterized by its multi-level and multi-function, could provide us with a theoretical framework for genre analysis. 3. Through the functional analysis, we find that language form is consistent with its function. Therefore, such a study suggests that similar analysis could also benefit English learners in their improvement of English listening, speaking and writing so that they can develop their communicative competence more effectively. Introduction This thesis is a case study of the First Bush-Kerry Presidential Debate in 2004. In light of Halliday’s point of view on grammatical metaphor, this thesis first identifies interpersonal GM in the debate and then analyzes their various pragmatic functions. The Concept of Grammatical Metaphor Grammatical metaphor is an incongruent realization of meanings involving transference of grammatical units from one domain to another, either from a basic domain to a subdomain, or from one subdomain to another subdomain. The Concept of Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor The grammar also accommodates metaphors of an interpersonal kind, in the expression of mood and modality, which is interpersonal grammatical metaphor. Mood expresses the speech function; and Modality expresses the speaker’s judgment or evaluation. The Concept of Metaphors of Modality Modality refers to a speaker’s attitude towards, or opinion about the truth of a proposition expressed by a clause. It also extends to his/her attitude towards the situation or event described by a cl