Author(s)

Xiong Zijia ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China

Corresponding Author

Xiong Zijia

ABSTRACT

Language is an indispensable tool for people's daily communication, and it has various functions. A well-known British linguist, Halliday, divided the language's functions into three different functions: ideational function, interpersonal function and textual function. Ideational function includes experiential function and logical function, in which experiential function are mainly embodied by transitivity and ergativity. Transitivity includes six processes: material process, mental process, relation process, verbal process, behavioral process, and existential process. Based on the theory of transitivity in ideational function, this thesis selected some common idioms of Xi's in conferences for analysis, and concluded that Chinese idioms are closely related to Chinese traditional culture, and the ideational function of Chinese idioms is also closely related to the Chinese policies. Therefore, through the transitivity analysis of Xi's idioms, we can explore the ideational function of Chinese idioms and in order to enhance our understanding of traditional Chinese culture and national policies.

KEYWORDS

Systematic Functional Linguistics; Ideational Function; Transitivity; Idiom

CITE THIS PAPER

Xiong Zijia, Transitivity Analysis under Ideational Function in Systemic Functional Linguistics—Taking Present Xi's Idioms as an Example. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2024) Vol. 7: 19-23. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2024.070204.

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[3] Halliday M A K. An Introduction to Functional Grammar [M]. London: Edward Arnold, 1985.
[4] Halliday M A K. Language as Social Semiotic: The Social Interpretation of Language and Meaning [M]. London: Edward Arnold, 1978.
[5] Geoff Thompson. Introducing Functional Grammar (3rd edition) [M]. Routledge, 2014.

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