scholarly journals Modal Operators and Personal Pronouns in Roosevelt’s Inaugural Addresses

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 984
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Dou
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Statistic Method ◽  
Modal Operators ◽  
Inaugural Addresses ◽  
Close Relationship

This paper tries to apply the interpersonal function of Halliday’s systemic functional grammar to analyze the interpersonal meanings of modal operators and personal pronouns in Roosevelt’s four inaugural addresses, that is, the dynamic and close relationship between the speaker and the hearers. By means of statistic method and stylistic analysis, this paper takes Roosevelt’s four inaugural speeches as objects of study, and mainly explores the interpersonal meanings of modal operators or linguistic forms so as to bring home Roosevelt’s linguistic techniques and stylistic effects. Roosevelt shows great interest in modal operators and personal pronouns to appeal to his audience’s emotional responses, to strengthen his in-group intimacy, and to convince his audience of his political purposes.

scholarly journals The Modality System and the Emotional Appeals: An Interpersonal Interpretation of Roosevelt’s Speeches

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 393
Author(s):  
Xiaoli Dou ◽  
Wendi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Modal Operators ◽  
Emotional Appeals ◽  
Positive Action ◽  
Close Relationship

This article takes Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four inaugural speeches as objects of study, and mainly uses the modality system in Halliday’s systemic functional grammar as theoretical framework. This paper, from a functional-stylistic perspective, tries to investigate the close relationship between the modality system and the interpersonal function, i.e. its emotional appeals to the audience, underlying those typical linguistic markers, hence to uncover Roosevelt’s unmatched linguistic competence and speaking techniques. Our study shows that Roosevelt prefers modalization to modulation. As for modulation, obligation covers 18.70% signaling the speaker’s degree of pressure on the audience to take positive action, and inclination appears frequently, covering 13.01%, and is mainly realized by finite modal operators or adjectives, showing Roosevelt’s willingness to do something for his country and people. Through these sparkling speeches, his wisdom and intelligence, capability and responsibility, prestige and power are fully demonstrated.

scholarly journals Analyzing Interpersonal Metafunction through Personal Pronouns in Song Ci Jiang Cheng Zi. Ji Meng

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Chen Liping
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Love Song

<p><em>Interpersonal metafunction has been studied in the four translated versions of Song Ci Jiang Cheng Zi. Ji Meng through </em><em>contrastive analysis</em><em> with the focus on personal pronouns. It aims to find out that the use of different personal pronouns connotes different interpersonal meaning and test the</em><em> feasibility and applicability of Systemic Functional Grammar to discourse analysis.</em><em> It also helps people who love Song Ci better appreciate this Ci-poem from a different angle.</em></p>

scholarly journals Analysis of President Xi’s Speech at the Extraordinary G20 Leaders’ Summit in light of Systemic Functional Grammar

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-162
Author(s):  
Xingyuan Cao ◽  
Lingling Liu
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Discourse Function ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
External Communication

Politics is a genre of language, and language is the manifestation of politics (Mazrui, 2008). Political discourse not only plays an important role in the process of national external communication but also conveys certain ideology and political intentions. Based on interpersonal function in Systemic Functional Grammar and using President Xi’s speech at the Extraordinary G20 Leaders’ Summit as the original data, this paper analyzes and explores how this speech can achieve discourse function through personal pronouns, mood, and modality. In addition, this paper reveals how various linguistic resources are used to realize interpersonal meaning in political discourse.

scholarly journals Ideological Differences between America and China from Perspectives of Transitivity System —Illustrated by Trump’s and Xi Jinping’s Presidential Inaugural Addresses

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 800
Author(s):  
Guohai Liao ◽  
Gelin Han
Keyword(s):  
American People ◽  
Spiritual Guidance ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Public Speech ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Inaugural Addresses ◽  
The People ◽  
Ideological Differences ◽  
Material Process

Taking Systemic Functional Grammar proposed by M.A.K. Halliday as theoretical framework, this paper is set to quantitatively analyze Donald Trump’s inaugural address and Xi Jinping’s first public speech as president of China in the distribution and functions of six processes from perspectives of transitivity system. Having done this, ideological differences between America and China beneath the textual discourse of their speeches will be qualitatively illustrated. It finds that material, mental and relational processes predominate both speeches and Xi’s speech mainly takes the overall lead in spiritual guidance and inclines to generally control the economic and social development in China. For Trump, he needs to employ all his skill to induce and gain the supports from American people, objectively depicting American mediocre situations by material process, trying to narrow down the psychological distance between his governance and the people by mental process and increasing the belonging of American people by relational process.

scholarly journals From functional to cognitive grammar in stylistic analysis of Golding’s The Inheritors

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Browse
Keyword(s):  
Positive Case ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Grammar ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Do So

Abstract Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) is one of the most influential grammars used in stylistics, but more recently the discipline has witnessed a growing body of work using cognitive grammars to explain stylistic effects. This research has tended to make the positive case for cognitive grammar (CG) by demonstrating its similarity to functionalist approaches. However, it is also necessary to say how CG adds to an SFG account of literary effects. To do so, I return to Halliday’s seminal analysis of Golding’s novel, The Inheritors. I use CG to investigate the conceptual processes involved in the reader’s interpretation of the character’s deviant mindstyle and outline some of the ludic and dramatic effects of these reconstrual operations. Thus, whereas SFG focuses on describing the ideational structure of the representations proffered by texts, I argue that a unique affordance of CG is its focus on the readerly construction of meaning.

scholarly journals Analysis of interpersonal metafunction in text messages: A case study of group text messages among teachers of English at Viet Anh School

2021 ◽  
pp. 365-385
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationship ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
The Social ◽  
Future Intention ◽  
Points Of View

This paper analyzes the interpersonal metafunction in text messages of teachers of English at Viet Anh School. The paper uses Systemic Functional Grammar as the theoretical framework which aims to investigate into a language from a qualitative approach. The aim of this paper is to discover how interpersonal metafunction is being served in text messages of teachers of English in terms of mood, speech function, modality, and personal pronouns. The analysis indicates that the teachers of English often use text messages for providing more information and demanding services by the dominant use of declarative clauses in their interaction. These teachers of English also perform their plans or desires about their future intention through the frequent use of modalities such as ‘will’, ‘can’ or ‘could’. Through the analysis of personal pronouns, it can be clear that the teachers of English tend to interact with each other by sharing their points of view rather than mentioning about other things or persons. Their social relation is shortened through the popular use of pronouns ‘I’, ‘we’ and ‘you’. Thus, it can be concluded that the social relationship among teachers of English is established and maintained through the use of interpersonal metafunction.

scholarly journals Rouhani’s and Obama’s Persian New Year messages: A systemic functional grammar perspective

ExELL ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Amin Karimnia ◽  
Shidak Rahbarian
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar

Abstract This study investigated Nowruz (Persian New Year) messages by Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama in March 2016. The study critically analyzed the discourse of these two presidential messages and uncovered the hidden aspects of their ideologies, policies, and background worldviews. In doing so, an integrated version of Halliday’s systemic functional grammar (SFG) and critical discourse analysis (CDA) was used. The analysis of data included various linguistic dimensions (e.g. processes, modality, transitivity) of the messages and their statistics. Although results suggested that Obama intended to build a more intimate situation, both presidents tried to inspire a spirit of action, development and effort in their respective governments. The messages did not reveal considerable thematic differences, except some discoursal religious features expressed in Rouhani’s message.

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