Title: On the System of Transitivity in Dong Pipa Song:Textual Functional Analysis of the Dong Pipa Song of Shangzhong (II)
Abstract: Transitivity system is a subsystem within the framework of the ideational function of systemic functional linguistics advanced by Halliday,but the three metafunctions Halliday proclaimed of language are closely related.How the six types of process included in the concept of transitivity within the ideational function are distributed in a particular discourse can reflect its textual features and in this sense transitivity can be said to have discourse-constructing function.Four types of Dong Pipa Song are selected in the present research and their different meanings and their respective social functions determine how transitivity manifests itself in these types of Dong song.How transitivity manifests itself in these types of song in turn shows their differences in terms of textual features.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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