A Logogenetic Study of Negative Polarity in English Academic Discourse: A SFL Perspective

BAO Xing-jia; LUO Zai-bing

doi:10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022050035

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BAO Xing-jia, LUO Zai-bing. A Logogenetic Study of Negative Polarity in English Academic Discourse: A SFL Perspective[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2022, 38(5): 533-542. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022050035

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BAO Xing-jia, LUO Zai-bing. A Logogenetic Study of Negative Polarity in English Academic Discourse: A SFL Perspective[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2022, 38(5): 533-542. doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022050035

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A Logogenetic Study of Negative Polarity in English Academic Discourse: A SFL Perspective

doi: 10.19979/j.cnki.issn10082689.2022050035

School of Foreign Languages, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China

Received Date: 2022-05-11
Available Online: 2022-10-10
Publish Date: 2022-10-25

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Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics, taking a corpus-assisted approach, this study explores the logogenetic characteristics of negative polarity in English by adopting British Academic Written English (BAWE) and British Academic Spoken English (BASE) as corpus. The study finds that lexical negation in English written texts is significantly higher in frequency than that in spoken texts, realizing triple meta-functions; while mood negation, phrasal negation and adjunct group negation in written texts are significantly lower compared with spoken texts, realizing single or double meta-functions, which shows a discursive trend that meta-function realization by negative polarity becomes more simplified with the upgrade of clausal rank-scale. The study shows that the logogenetic characteristic of negative polarity system in English academic discourse could be attributed to the grammatical condensing in academic discourse. The different logogenetic potential of grammaticalization and lexicalization in negative polarity is conducive to the appliable choice of negative choice on the part of English learners in academic communication.
- negation,
- grammatical negation,
- lexical negation,
- SFL,
- logogenesis

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