What Is Systemic Functional Linguistics
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摘要: 系统功能语言学是韩礼德在20世纪60代开始创建的一个语言学理论。文章围绕着“什么是系统功能语言学?”这个问题对这个学说进行解释和说明,涉及了语言学流派、系统、功能、普通语言学、适用语言学、韩礼德语言学等关键概念。文章的讨论表明,系统功能语言学理论的形成受到中国语言学思想的影响,它的建构与韩礼德和中国的渊源有很重要的关系,中国学者对该理论的研究很好地说明了该理论的中国渊源。Abstract: Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is a linguistic theory founded by Halliday in the 1960s. This paper focuses on the question of “What is systemic functional linguistics?” to explain this theory, involving the key concepts of schools of linguistics, system, function, general linguistics, appliable linguistics and Hallidayan linguistics. The discussion in this paper shows that the theory of SFL was influenced by Chinese linguistic thought, that its construction has an important relationship with Halliday’s connections with China, and that Chinese scholars’ research on this theory is a good illustration of the theory’s Chinese origin.
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Key words:
- Systemic Functional Linguistics /
- system /
- function /
- appliable linguistics /
- general linguistics
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图 1 一个简单的系统
图 2 一个简单的系统网络
图 3 适用语言学——理论语言学(正题)与应用语言学(反题)的合题
图 4 系统功能语言学的发展阶段
表 1 系统功能语言学与其他功能语言学理论及形式语言学理论的关系
取向 轴 系统(systemic)
(纵聚合paradigmatic)结构(structural)
(横组合syntagmatic)功能 系统功能语言学(SFL) 一般意义上的功能途径:
系统功能语言学(SFL)、布拉格学派(Prague School)、功能话语语法(FDG: Functional Discourse Grammar)、词汇功能语法(LFG: Lexical-Functional Grammar)、角色参照语法(RRG: Role and Reference Grammar)等形式 — 一般意义上的形式途径:
转换语法(TG: Transformational Grammar)、扩展标准理论(EST: Extended Standard Theory)、最简方案(Minimalist Program)、广义短语结构语法(GPSG: Generalized Phrase Structure Grammars)、范畴语法(Categorial Grammar)等 -
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