Ideational and Interpersonal Metafunctional Profiles of the Chinese Grammar  

作　　者：Elaine Yin Ling Ng 

机构地区：[1]The Open University ofHong Kong, Hong Kong, China

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2013年第12期901-929,共29页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：There has been little research conducted on the applicability of Halliday＇s （1994） SFG （systemic functional grammar） framework to the analysis of Chinese translated texts and the possible adjustments needed to make the model fit for comparative description dealing with translation from English into Chinese. More has been done to explore the differences in the thematic structure between English and Chinese while relatively little was discussed with regard to the ideational and interpersonal metafunctions of the Chinese language. This paper aims to test the applicability of systemic functional linguistics to the study of Chinese translated texts with regard to the transitivity and modality systems, and suggest aspects of the lexicogrammatical features of the SFG model that need to be adjusted to make it more serviceable for the analysis of Chinese translated texts. The supporting data are drawn from selected examples from two parallel corpora of the three-day battle in Hemingway＇s The Old Man and the Sea （1952）, consisting of 1,388 clause complexes extracted from the English original and its four Chinese translations of the novella compiled manually with reference to Halliday＇s （1994） transitivity model and Simpson＇s （1993） model of point of view. The study contributes further samples of text instances to demonstrate the ＂meaning potentials＂ of English and Chinese, support the applicability of systemic functional linguistics to the analysis of Chinese translated texts, and proposes to modify aspects of the SFG model according to the unique features of the Chinese grammar and the specific purpose of study for translation description of Chinese texts.

关 键 词：ideational and interpersonal metafunctions of the Chinese grammar applicability of Halliday＇s systemicfunctional linguistics to the study of Chinese translated texts the transitivity system in Chinese modalization andmodulation of the modality system in Chinese 

分 类 号：TP312[自动化与计算机技术—计算机软件与理论] TS803.8[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]