Systemic Functional Grammar Dimensions The Functions Of The Russian Discourse Analysis

The research on the discourse has been the focus of many linguists in Russian in the recent years .The discourse analysis is one of the active branches in linguistics, but it is mainly in the field of grammar rather than in semantics. This article makes an analysis of the meaning of Russian discourse by means of the systematic-functional grammar. It also shows the ideationaK interpersonak informational^ functional and their representative forms in the surface of the discourse. Halliday argues that the social factors are the only one that constrains the discourse meaning. But I think that, the cognitive factors also play an important role in meaning. The combination of the two can lead to the full understanding of the discourse .The main body can be divided into 4 chapters:Chapter 1 is about the review of the history and development of the discourse analysis and its future tendency. ?Chapter 2 deals with the basic principle and ways of analyses which are the fundamental part of the whole paper.Chapter 3 can server as the theoretical foundation of on the analysis of the discourse, and put forward some basic concept on discourse, function, etc. Since there is hardly a place for the discourse in the linguistic levels, I want to make a dynamic linguistic pictograph to put the discourse in it. And we take it that the function analysis of the discourse is the semantic analysis of it. According to the fundamental principle of the systematic functional grammar, the three meta-functions are ideational > interpersonal and informational function which operate in the way of choice.Chapter 4 takes chapter 3 as the base. The three functions are analyzed in detail by means of the language material. Thus we consider that the cognitive factors play a role in the function of the discourse.Our conclusion is that, the discourse analysis should be stemmed from the meaning and start from the function and then analyze the surface structure .The combination of the cognitive factors and social factors should be resorted to the full understanding of the discourse.