Text Contrastive Analysis Of The Chinese Narrative And Exposition Discourse From The Perspective Of Systemic-Functional Linguistics

Guided by Halliday’s systematic-functional linguistics,this paper contrasts and analyzes Chinese narrative and exposition discourse in details.From the perspectivesof the three metafunctions,namely,ideational functions,interpersonal functions as well as textual function,the study has discovered the similarity and difference of the two literary forms and explained them from the two aspects of the characteristics of its style and the writing requirements.Based on the text analysis for the two literary forms,some implications have been generated for the employment of its findings to the practice of Teaching Chinese to the Speakers of Other Languages.This paper is divided into five chapters.The first chapter introduce the object、the method and the significance of this research,as well as the source of the text.The second chapter deals with the terms of text, text analysis,as well as relevant terms. After that, the history of text analysis is reviewed.The third chapter is the theoretical framework of the paper.In which the three metafunctions and the special forms for textual cohesion are presented in details.The fourth chapter is the main part of this paper.In this part,guided by the three systemic-functional concepts,,namely,the ideatonal functional interpersonal functional and textual functional,it contrasts and analyzes the two different writing styles at great length.Very big difference is discovered between these two literary forms’generative process.Meanwhile,there are also some similarties between them.This chapter also attempts to account for the difference and similarties in several aspects,such as stylistic features and writing norm.Based on what has been discovered, last chapter from the actual situation of the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language. summarizes some implications which are generated by the discourse analysis to Chinese teaching from three aspects,such as reading、writing and listening. It is hoped that this research result can contribute some help to the Chinese teaching.