Interpretation of Hemingway’s “Iceberg” Theory from Perspective of Systemic Functional Appliable Linguistics: Exemplified with <i>Killers</i>

CHEN Hai-ye; ZHI Hong

Jun. 2021

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CHEN Hai-ye, ZHI Hong. Interpretation of Hemingway’s “Iceberg” Theory from Perspective of Systemic Functional Appliable Linguistics: Exemplified with Killers[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2015, 31(5): 41-47.

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CHEN Hai-ye, ZHI Hong. Interpretation of Hemingway’s “Iceberg” Theory from Perspective of Systemic Functional Appliable Linguistics: Exemplified with Killers[J]. Journal of University of Science and Technology Beijing ( Social Sciences Edition), 2015, 31(5): 41-47.

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Interpretation of Hemingway’s “Iceberg” Theory from Perspective of Systemic Functional Appliable Linguistics: Exemplified with Killers

CHEN Hai-ye¹,
ZHI Hong²

1. School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444;
2. International Studies College, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083

Received Date: 2015-03-12
Available Online: 2021-06-16

Abstract

Abstract

As appliable linguistics，Systemic Functional Linguistics is a powerful tool to analyze literary texts.Through a functional text analysis of Hemingway’s classic short novel Killers in terms of its transitivity system，mood and modality，thematic structure，etc，the “Iceberg” theory and its realization on the text level are discussed，thus revealing the interpretative power of SFL as appliable linguistics in literary texts and “Iceberg” theory，and appliability as SFL’s essential quality.
- Iceberg theory,
- SFL,
- appliable linguistics,
- transitivity system,
- mood system,
- thematic structure