Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Style of Novels:A Modified Functional Analysis of In Cold Blood

Preface / 7页
Chapter I Introduction / 10页
1.1 TraditionalLiterary Criticism -Mainstream ofLiteratureEvaluation / 14页
1.2 Literary Stylistics- A Linguistic Approach towards Litera-ture / 16页
1.3 Some Linguistic ModelsAdopted in Stylistics-A New Per-spective / 27页
1.3.1 Saussure餾Modelof"Signified"and"Signifier"/ 27页
1.3.2 R.Jakobson餾Cohesion Theory / 29页
1.3.3 Chomsky餾 Surface Structure and Deep StructureModel/ 30页
1.3.4 Halliday餾FunctionalTheory / 35页
1.3.5 Discourse AnalysisModels / 39页
1.3.6 CriticalLinguistic Model/ 41页
1.4 Chinese Scholars餋ontributions / 43页
1.5 W hy Do W e Sample In Cold Blood / 45页
1.6 W hy Do W e Sample Halliday餾Systemic FunctionalGram-mar / 50页
1.7 Tripartite Structure ofthe Study / 54页
Chapter Ⅱ The Analysisatthe SocialContextLevel/ 56页
2.1 A BriefIntroduction / 56页
2.2 Data Collection -Principlesand Proceedings / 59页
2.3 The metaplot/ 61页
2.4 Metastructure / 72页
2.5 Metapersonality / 82页
Chapter Ⅲ The Analysisatthe TextualLevel/ 95页
3.1 A BriefIntroduction / 95页
3.2 W hy the Notion ofCohesion / 98页
3.3 Cohesive Featuresofthe Textand TheirEffects / 105页
Chapter IV The Analysisatthe ClausalLevel/ 111页
4.1 A BriefIntroduction / 111页
4.2 W hy Transitivity Model/ 115页
4.2.1 ConventionalNotion ofTransitivity / 115页
4.2.2 Halliday餾Model/ 116页
4.2.3 ProcessTypes / 118页
4.2.4 Transitivity Analysis and Power Relationships ofCharacters / 121页
4.3 Transitivity Analysisofthe Texts / 123页
4.3.1 ParametersofTransitivity Value/ 123页
4.3.2 PrinciplesFollowed by the TransitivityStudy / 125页
4.3.3 GeneralTransitivity Featuresofthe ThreeTexts / 128页
4.3.4 Transitivity AnalysisofTextI / 130页
4.3.5 Transitivity AnalysisofTextIV / 133页
4.3.6 Transitivity study ofTextVⅡ / 136页
4.4 Materiality Analysisofthe Texts / 138页
4.5 Mentality Study / 141页
4.5.1 W hy Mentality / 141页
4.5.2 The Meaning ofMentality / 142页
4.5.3 ParametersofMentality and MentalityValues / 143页
4.5.4 Two Notions:TransparentMentalProcessandOpaque MentalProcess / 144页
4.5.5 Mentality AnalysisofTextⅡ,TextV and TextVⅢ / 145页
4.6 Relation(Neutrality)Discussion / 147页
4.6.1 The Meaning ofRelation / 147页
4.6.2 Relation Parametersand Values / 148页
4.6.3 RelationalAnalysisofTextⅢ,TextVIand TextIX / 149页
Chapter V Com parative Analysis / 151页
5.1 Background / 151页
5.2 Comparison atthe SocialContextand TextualLevel/ 153页
5.3 Comparison atClausalLevel/ 155页
5.3.1 GeneralTransitivity Featuresofthe NineTexts / 156页
5.3.2 Material,Mentaland RelationalProperties oftheTexts / 157页
5.4 Comparison Based on the Two Transitivity Models / 160页
5.4.1 A Survey ofHopper and Thompson餾 TransitivityNotion / 160页
5.4.2 Transitivity Study ofthe Texts / 163页
5.4.3 Comparison ofthe Discussionswith Two TransitivityNotions / 164页
Chapter VI Conclusion / 168页
Endnotes / 171页
Bibliography / 174页
Acknowledgem ent / 185页