功能语言学课件verview_of_Systemic_Functional_Linguistics.ppt

1.4.4 Grammatical systems in language it is really a combination of many different kinds of systems, which make up a system network, including mood, transitivity, theme, person, case, number, etc. Example: Mood system in English. P.20 Next Page. It is one level of language: Context Semantics Levels Lexicogrammar Phonology Sounds/ written symbols * * 1.4.5 Implications of a tri-strata-semiotic model of language It studies language from a social cultural and semiotic perspective: not psychological, neurological, or even cognitive. It is concerned with both system and structure: System potential langue competence Structure actual parole performance Halliday Saussure Chomsky * Summary 1. How do people use language? Purpose, situation: ideology, genre and register 2. How is language structured for use? Semiotic systems: Meaning, lexis, grammar, phonology * CHAPTER TWOSystemic Functional Linguistics: An Overview 张德禄 * 1.1 A Historical View of systemic functional linguistics 1.1.1 Functionalism and Formalism At the beginning of the last century, after Saussure, there are three schools of structuralism: In America, we have American structuralism, which is formalism in nature In Europe, there are two functional schools: The Prague School The Copenhagen School 1.1 A Historical View of systemic functional linguistics Common Features of functionalism: Functionalism is naturalism, stressing the natural and rational nature of language. Functionalism studies language from an encoding or Speaker’s point of view; Functionalism stresses the constraining effect of the context of situation and social communications. Functionalism analyzes the structure of language according to functions in contrast to form. Functionalism focuses on the use and variations of language in contr