Modal discourse markers play an important role in language communication,and the analysis of modal discourse markers is in full swing,but a large amount of analysis focuses on written texts,such as academic writing or...
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 ma...
In light of Halliday's point of view on metaphors of modality, this paper analyzes the interpersonal functions of metaphors of modality in President Obama's 30 radio addresses, which are downloaded from www.pntclub....
CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis) is a type of discourse analytical research that primarily studies the way social power abuse, dominance and inequality are enacted, reproduced and resisted by text and talk in the s...
In the EFL classroom, grammar is often taught at the level of sentence. And such problems are often met that the students can't relate the grammar with what they want to convey in spoken or written discourse. This st...
It is generally assumed in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) that each of the contextual parameters (field, tenor, and mode) primarily determines choices in each of the three metafunctions (ideational, interp...
This study attempts to show whether advertisement texts engender similarities in interpersonal metafunctions across two languages, here specifically English and Chinese. Furthermore, inasmuch as the Hallidayan notion ...