系统功能语法FunctionalApproach解题.ppt

Chapter FUNCTIONAL APPROACH XXX * Outline Introduction about functional approach Representative----Halliday Key points about Systemic – Functional Grammar * Introduction A functional model of language emphasizes meaning and how language is involved in the construction of meaning. A functional model of language describes how language operates at the text level, not at the level of individual words and sentences in isolation. M.A.K. Halliday (1925- ) has developed the ideas stemming from Firth’s theories in the London School. * * His Systemic- Functional (SF) Grammar is a sociologically oriented functional linguistic approach and one of the most influential linguistic theories in the 20th century, having great effect on various disciplines related to language, such as language teaching, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, stylistics, and machine translation. * Systemic - Functional Grammar has two components: Systemic Grammar and Functional Grammar. * Systemic grammar aims to explain the internal relations in language as a system network, or meaning potential. And this network consists of subsystems from which language users make choices. * Functional grammar aims to reveal that language is a means of social interaction, based on the position that language system and the forms that make it up are inescapably determined by the uses or functions which they are serve. * Halliday defines a functional grammar as “essentially a ‘natural’ grammar, in the sense that everything in it can be explained. Halliday interprets language development from a functional point of view and formulates a functional theory of language. * Children’s model of language (1) the instrumental function; (2) the regulatory function; (3) the interactional function; (4) the personal function; (5) the heuristic function; (6) the imaginative function; (7) the informative function. Metafunctions 1 2 3 Ideational function Interpersonal function Textual function 1 Ideational funct