Interpersonal Meaning Analysis And Application Research On College Spoken English Discourse

Halliday developed Systemic-Functional Linguistics(SFL) in which he analyzed the function of language into three metafunctions:ideational,interpersonal and textual metafunctions.The interpersonal metafunction is about the social world,especially the relationship between speaker and hearer.It serves to establish and maintain social relations such as the expression of social roles,which include the communication roles created by means of the interaction between one person and another.Based on Halliday's viewpoint of language's interpersonal metafunction,this research gives an analysis of 30 examples of college spoken English texts collected from New Practical English Comprehensive Course. All the contents and topics of the samples are colorful and come from real life.According to features of the examples collected,the work examines the linguistic patterns in modality and mood system.It is found that the manipulation of mood structures,especially declaratives in the texts,enables an interaction between the speaker and the hearer and realizes the speaker's main role in the samples in our study.In addition,the use of modal expressions in the sample texts reveals speaker's attitude,stance and the relationship between communicators. Grounded in the analysis,it is suggested that learners should be engaged totally in the process of meaning production,and be left free totally in thinking,feeling and giving voice to personal thoughts.In the context of college spoken English teaching and learning,the interactive approach is sound,according to the experiment on two classes.