It analyses an excerpt from the post-modern novel Slaughterhouse-Five from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics.Through transitivity analysis and cohesion analysis,it finds that the novelist Kurt Vonnegu...
By making use of narratological theories of Gerard Genette,especially in terms of anachrony,this thesis studies the seemingly chaotic but systematic anachrony in Slaughterhouse-Five.It means to show that the superfici...