Abstract
This paper mainly employs Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar theory, concerning the interpersonal metafunction, to make a theoretically founded analysis on an episode in Feng Yun Dui Hua, a famous television program from Phoenix TV. The specific data is from an interview between the TV host Ruan Cishan and the contemporary US Secretary of State Colin Luther Powell. Through analysis of interpersonal meanings in the interview discourse, it is revealed that Mood, modality, person pronouns and Appraisal system are all important devices to reveal the features of the political TV interview.
Highlights
IntroductionSystemic Functional Grammar (hereinafter SFG), constructed by M.A.K Halliday in the late 20th century, has played an important role in Discourse Analysis (hereinafter DA) and provided us with new and effective insights into it
Systemic Functional Grammar, constructed by M.A.K Halliday in the late 20th century, has played an important role in Discourse Analysis and provided us with new and effective insights into it
Through analysis of interpersonal meanings in the interview discourse, it is revealed that Mood, modality, person pronouns and Appraisal system are all important devices to reveal the features of the political TV interview
Summary
Systemic Functional Grammar (hereinafter SFG), constructed by M.A.K Halliday in the late 20th century, has played an important role in Discourse Analysis (hereinafter DA) and provided us with new and effective insights into it. As Halliday himself puts it, the SFG constructed to serve the text analysis, which is sensible and useful for any spoken or written text in modern English (Halliday, 1994/2000: F41). A political interview usually involves two parties in the conversation, the host and the visiting guest. The party to give information, the visiting guest usually chooses cautious wordings towards the sensitive issues, especially those with disputes. Since no detailed studies have been intended to analyze the spoken text of political interview and Halliday’s SFG theory is considered as a workable frame in DA, exploring how interpersonal function is realized in the conversation between host and guest by employing Halliday’s linguistic model and Martin’s Theory as the analytical framework becomes the motivation of this paper
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