Informed by the framework of Halliday＇s Systemic Functional Grammar, this paper compares ＂The Little Mermaid＂ （1872） by Hans Christian Andersen and its parodic version ＂The Little Mer-persun＂ （1995） by James ...Informed by the framework of Halliday＇s Systemic Functional Grammar, this paper compares ＂The Little Mermaid＂ （1872） by Hans Christian Andersen and its parodic version ＂The Little Mer-persun＂ （1995） by James Finn Garner. Andersen＇s story creates gender stereotype by under-representing the heroine as an effectual Actor and Sayer but establishing the image of the hero as a powerful Actor and assertive Sayer. Garner＇s story, on the other hand, tends to subvert the traditional gender stereotype by representing the heroine as a more dynamic Actor and Sayer than the hero and by reversing the power relationship between the two. These differing characterizations reflect the two competing literary traditions and embedded ideologies of romanticist fairy tale genre and modem ＂politically-correct＂ parodic satire展开更多
Goal-setting enhances learning by providing a sense of direction and purpose to individuals. Contemporary social media plays an important role in expressing individual users＇ messages and sharing personal goals withi...Goal-setting enhances learning by providing a sense of direction and purpose to individuals. Contemporary social media plays an important role in expressing individual users＇ messages and sharing personal goals within a given community. The massiveness of the data available for users calls for a more systematic analysis of goals and meaning-making construction of these goals for educational and research purposes. This research proposes an approach to combine methods of mining, corpus linguistics and SFG （systemic functional grammar） for extracting goals in mined tweets, sorting the data linguistically and devising a model for analyzing the data based on the concepts of SFG and genre-based realization. The results of ＂meaning-making＂ analysis of goals show that： （1） mining is a successful tool for processing the large database into the pre-designated typology of goals; （2） the implementation of SFG as an analytical theory for semiotic and semogenic features of goals is a significant expansion of linguistic analysis of goals; （3） the Transitivity Model of SFG for identifying the Ideational Function of social meaning creation shows thc inclination of using ＂material＂, ＂mental＂ and ＂relational＂ processes as well as personal recounts of past learning experiences.展开更多
Lyrics is a special type of text which is more stiring and vivid due to the combination of beautiful melody. SFG is widelyadopted in text analysis as it is very effective in explaining the ideational, interpersonal an...Lyrics is a special type of text which is more stiring and vivid due to the combination of beautiful melody. SFG is widelyadopted in text analysis as it is very effective in explaining the ideational, interpersonal and textual functions served by a particulartext. This paper is an analysis of the lyrics of Blowing in The Wind in terms of SFG, aiming at providing a new perspective on the in-terpretation of the song.展开更多
The SFG deals mainly with the study of language in context. Two texts on the same topic in different genres are chosen and they are analyzed from the dimensions of Field (What is the text about?),Tenor (What is the re...The SFG deals mainly with the study of language in context. Two texts on the same topic in different genres are chosen and they are analyzed from the dimensions of Field (What is the text about?),Tenor (What is the reader-writer relationship?) and Mode (What is the medium of communication,and how is the message organized?),which relate to Ideational,Interpersonal and Textual Metafuntions of language respectively.展开更多
文摘Informed by the framework of Halliday＇s Systemic Functional Grammar, this paper compares ＂The Little Mermaid＂ （1872） by Hans Christian Andersen and its parodic version ＂The Little Mer-persun＂ （1995） by James Finn Garner. Andersen＇s story creates gender stereotype by under-representing the heroine as an effectual Actor and Sayer but establishing the image of the hero as a powerful Actor and assertive Sayer. Garner＇s story, on the other hand, tends to subvert the traditional gender stereotype by representing the heroine as a more dynamic Actor and Sayer than the hero and by reversing the power relationship between the two. These differing characterizations reflect the two competing literary traditions and embedded ideologies of romanticist fairy tale genre and modem ＂politically-correct＂ parodic satire
文摘Goal-setting enhances learning by providing a sense of direction and purpose to individuals. Contemporary social media plays an important role in expressing individual users＇ messages and sharing personal goals within a given community. The massiveness of the data available for users calls for a more systematic analysis of goals and meaning-making construction of these goals for educational and research purposes. This research proposes an approach to combine methods of mining, corpus linguistics and SFG （systemic functional grammar） for extracting goals in mined tweets, sorting the data linguistically and devising a model for analyzing the data based on the concepts of SFG and genre-based realization. The results of ＂meaning-making＂ analysis of goals show that： （1） mining is a successful tool for processing the large database into the pre-designated typology of goals; （2） the implementation of SFG as an analytical theory for semiotic and semogenic features of goals is a significant expansion of linguistic analysis of goals; （3） the Transitivity Model of SFG for identifying the Ideational Function of social meaning creation shows thc inclination of using ＂material＂, ＂mental＂ and ＂relational＂ processes as well as personal recounts of past learning experiences.
文摘Lyrics is a special type of text which is more stiring and vivid due to the combination of beautiful melody. SFG is widelyadopted in text analysis as it is very effective in explaining the ideational, interpersonal and textual functions served by a particulartext. This paper is an analysis of the lyrics of Blowing in The Wind in terms of SFG, aiming at providing a new perspective on the in-terpretation of the song.
文摘The SFG deals mainly with the study of language in context. Two texts on the same topic in different genres are chosen and they are analyzed from the dimensions of Field (What is the text about?),Tenor (What is the reader-writer relationship?) and Mode (What is the medium of communication,and how is the message organized?),which relate to Ideational,Interpersonal and Textual Metafuntions of language respectively.
