Choices of Verbal Process Type and Expression of Implicit Discourse Attitude
Abstract
Critical Linguistics, a kind of instrumental linguistics based mainly on Hallidays systemic-functional grammar, has developed since 1970s. It aims to unveil the hidden relationship between language, power and ideology, for implicit attitude exists pervasively in any discourse. As one of the analytical tools in critical linguistics, the transitivity approach to discourse analysis began when M.A.K. Halliday (1971) made a transitivity analysis of William Goldings novel The Inheritors. This thesis adopts it as its analyzing framework.
In conducting a transitivity analysis of two English news discourses from China and the United Sates, the thesis here tends to investigate what implicit attitude hidden behind news discourses will be showed up when the news discourses are about the same event and of the same genre. Through the critical analysis of English news discourse from a transitivity perspective, the main findings obtained are as follows: news discourses are not so just or objective as they are proclaimed to be, and the different implicit attitude can be revealed through the different verbal processes used in the news discourse.
Key Words: process types; material process; relational process; expression of implicit attitude
摘 要
批評語言學是1門工具語言學，主要以韓禮德的系統功能語法爲基礎，並發展於20世紀70年代。它以揭示語言、權利和意識形態的潛在關係爲目的,因爲隱形態度廣泛地存在於任何語篇之中。及物性語法是批評性語篇分析的主要工具之1。事實上，1971年韓禮德就對威廉•戈爾丁的長篇小說《繼承者》做了及物性分析，這標誌着及物性方法用於語篇分析的開始。本論文則試圖將及物性方法用於英語新聞語篇的分析。
本論文主要採用及物性理論這1批評性分析工具，對中國和美國的英語新聞語篇進行分析。其目的是研究對於同樣的新聞事件和同樣的新聞體裁，隱藏在新聞語篇背後的意識形態是否能通過對新聞語篇進行及物性分析而體現出來。通過對所選定的英語新聞樣本進行及物性的批評性分析，本論文得出的結論是:新聞語篇並不像所聲稱的`那樣客觀，公正。對於不同國家，同1新聞事件的同1體裁的新聞報道，往往會反映出不同的隱性態度，而這1不同的隱性態度能通過分析英語新聞語篇的動詞過程類型而反映出來。
關鍵詞: 過程類型、物質過程、關係過程、話語隱性態度的表達
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