Comment Adjuncts in English: Their Speaker-orientedness and Interpersonal Meanings
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摘要: 功能语法把状语叫做附加语。附加语分为环境附加语、情态附加语和连接附加语。情态附加语又分为语气附加语和评论附加语。评论附加语属于人际附加语,表达人际意义。评论附加语的人际意义是由说话人表达的,属于说话人意义。因此,评论附加语具有明显的言者指向性。评论附加语所表达的人际意义有三种:介入义、认识义和评判义。介入义表达说话人表述命题信息的方式。认识义表达说话人对命题真值确信性程度的判断义或命题信息可靠性程度的言据义。评判义是说话人对命题的整体或命题的主语的判断和评价。这些人际意义均取决于说话人对所述信息的主观态度,因而具有明显的言者主观性。Abstract: Halliday's Functional Grammar regards adverbials as Adjuncts,which are classified into circumstantial Adjuncts,modal Adjuncts and conjunctive Adjuncts.Modal Adjuncts are further divided into mood Adjuncts and comment Adjuncts.Comment Adjuncts are a kind of interpersonal Adjuncts,so they express interpersonal meaning.Such a kind of interpersonal meanings comes from the speaker,therefore it is a kind of speaker meaning.This makes it clear that comment Adjuncts are speaker-oriented in nature.The interpersonal meanings conveyed by comment Adjuncts include engagement meaning,epistemic meaning and evaluative meaning.Engagement meaning refers to the manner in which the speaker conveys the information.Epistemic meaning includes judgmental meaning and evidential meaning.The former expresses the speaker's judgment of the certitude of truth-value of the proposition,while the latter conveys the speaker's evidence to the reliability of the propositional information.Evaluative meaning refers to the speaker's evaluation of the proposition as a whole or his evaluation of the Subject's role in the propositional event.What is more important,all these interpersonal meanings are dependent on the speaker's subjective attitude towards the communicated information,therefore they embody obvious speaker's subjectivity.
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Key words:
- Functional Grammar /
- comment Adjunct /
- speaker-orientedness /
- interpersonal meaning
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