Interpersonal Function 人际功能(课堂PPT)

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Notions of Interpersonal Function
• According to Halliday, there are three meta-functions in every language system. One of them is called interpersonal function (IP for short). IP functions a lot in establishing and maintaining the social relationships between speakers throughout the use of language in daily life.
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Interpersonal Function on mood system
• The definition of mood offered by Thompson(2000:42) is that it expresses the entity that the speaker wants to make responsible for the validity and for the preposition being advanced in the clause. Mood is “the selection by the speaker of a particular role in the speech situation” and his determination of the choice of roles for the addressee(Halliday,1994:33). We should make it clear what the speech role is, and in so, doing assigns to the listener a complimentary role, which he wishes him to adopt in his turn.
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• The function is the meaning potential of the speaker as an intruder. Through the function, the speaker makes himself participate in a certain context of situation and expresses his opinions, attitudes and evaluations and also attempts to exert influence on others’ attitude and behavior. In addition, the function shows the role relationship related to the situation, including communicative role relationship between questioner and answerer, informer and doubter, and so on.
Interpersonal Function
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Contents
Notions of Halliday’s Interpersonal Function Interpersonal Function on mood system Interpersonal Function on modality system Interpersonal Function on address terms
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Halliday’s Model of Interpersonal Function
• Interpersonal • • • • •
Interactional-Mood
Attitudinal
modality
modalization modulation
(Evaluative devices)
• Halliday observed “Here, speaker is using language as the means of his own intrusion into the speech event: the expression of his comments, attitudes and evaluations, and also of the relationship that he sets up between himself and the listener-in particular the communication role that he adopts, of informing, questioning, greeting, persuading, and the like (Halliday ,1973:333).
• In other words, the interpersonal function in communication not only realizes the speaker’s attitudes, his or her role, status, point of view, intention and judgment, but also influences the receivers’ point of view and actions. the relationship between the speakers and the hearers is dynamic. Halliday’s research on the interpersonal function was mainly carried out from the perspective of mood, modality and intonation.