外国语 ›› 2020, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (6): 21-41.

• 语言研究 • 上一篇    

GRADUATION in Play with Other Systems of Meaning in the Enactment of Interpersonal Relations

Susan Hood1, Dongbing Zhang2   

  1. 1. University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia;
    2. University of International Business and Economics, Beijing 100029, China
  • 收稿日期:2020-04-20 发布日期:2021-01-13
  • 作者简介:Susan Hood is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.Her research interests focus on academic discourses in their different modes and the disciplinary fields they construe.Email:susan.hood@sydney.edu.au;Dongbing Zhang (张冬冰) is a Lecturer in the School of International Studies at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, following his Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship and his doctorate in Linguistics at The University of Sydney.His main research interest lies in the systemic description of Khorchin Mongolian and the study of social interactions in general.Email:dongbing.zhang@uibe.edu.cn

GRADUATION in Play with Other Systems of Meaning in the Enactment of Interpersonal Relations

Susan Hood1, Dongbing Zhang2   

  1. 1. University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia;
    2. University of International Business and Economics, Beijing 100029, China
  • Received:2020-04-20 Published:2021-01-13

摘要: Over the past two decades the quantity and scope of research drawing on the system of APPRAISAL in SFL has massively expanded.It is reasonable to claim that the majority of these studies have foregrounded the subsystems of ATTITUDE and ENGAGEMENT.Our aim in contributing to this special issue celebrating two decades of APPRAISAL research is to focus on the subsystem of GRADUATION.We do so in descriptive accounts of three studies exploring the role of GRADUATION in the enactment of social relations and the building of affiliative communities.The intended contribution is two-fold.Together the studies provide an indication of the progressive development and application of this dimension of SFL theory.Specifically they range from analyses of written academic discourse to the semiosis of body language, and studies of English to Khorchin Mongolian.While each study foregrounds the interpersonal function of GRADUATION we do not suggest that one can attend to this in isolation.The thread that unites the studies is an emphasis on the ways in which expressions of GRADUATION always co-instantiate or couple with choices in other systems in the enactment of social relations, with different kinds of coupling differently supporting bonds for affiliation.

关键词: Systemic Functional Linguistics, APPRAISAL, GRADUATION, coupling, affiliation

Abstract: Over the past two decades the quantity and scope of research drawing on the system of APPRAISAL in SFL has massively expanded.It is reasonable to claim that the majority of these studies have foregrounded the subsystems of ATTITUDE and ENGAGEMENT.Our aim in contributing to this special issue celebrating two decades of APPRAISAL research is to focus on the subsystem of GRADUATION.We do so in descriptive accounts of three studies exploring the role of GRADUATION in the enactment of social relations and the building of affiliative communities.The intended contribution is two-fold.Together the studies provide an indication of the progressive development and application of this dimension of SFL theory.Specifically they range from analyses of written academic discourse to the semiosis of body language, and studies of English to Khorchin Mongolian.While each study foregrounds the interpersonal function of GRADUATION we do not suggest that one can attend to this in isolation.The thread that unites the studies is an emphasis on the ways in which expressions of GRADUATION always co-instantiate or couple with choices in other systems in the enactment of social relations, with different kinds of coupling differently supporting bonds for affiliation.

Key words: Systemic Functional Linguistics, APPRAISAL, GRADUATION, coupling, affiliation

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