語篇案例分析1

1、. You Dont Love Me!You dont love me! lHow many times have your kids laid that one you love them on you? 2And how many times have you, as a parent, resisted the urge to tell them how much you love them? 3Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, Ill tel

2、l them you love them. 4I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom,and what time you would get home. 5I loved you enough to insist you buy a bike with your own money that we could afford and you couldnt. 6I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your hand-picked f

3、riend was a creep. 7 I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drug-store and confess, I stole this. 8I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleanedyour bedroom, a job that would have taken me fifteen minutes. 9I loved you enough to say, Yes,

4、you can go to Disney World on Mothers Day. 10I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment, disgust and tears in my eyes. 11I loved you enough not to make excuses for your lack of respect or yourbad manners. 12I loved you enough to admit that I was wrong and ask for your forgiveness. 13I l

5、oved you enough to ignore what every other mother did or said. 14I loved you enough to let you stumble, fall, hurl and fail. 15I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your own actions,at six, ten, or sixteen. 16I loved you enough to figure you would lie about the party being chap

6、eroned,but forgave you for it . after discovering 1 was right. 17I loved you enough to shove you off my lap, let go of your hand, be muteto your please . so that you had to stand alone. 18I loved you enough to accept you for what you are, not what I wanted you to be. rl9But most of all, I loved you

7、enough to say no when you hated me for it. That was the hardest part of all. 20 Analysis：1 Whats a social discourse? Social discourse rarely consist of just single clauses, rather social contexts develop as sequences of meanings comprising texts. Since each text is produced interactively between spe

8、akers, and between writers and (potential) readers, we can use it to interpret the interaction it manifests. (Martin & Rose 2007:1 Working with Discourse ) 2 Why do we use language or what are functions of language from social aspect? metafunctions of language in social activity: three general socia

9、l functions that we use language for: (i) to enact our (paticipants) social relationships; (ii) to represent (表征) our experience to each other; and (iii) to organize our enactments and representations as meaningful text（組句成篇）. 3 What can discourse analysis do or how does discourse analysis do ? Disc

10、ourse analysis employs the tools of grammarians to identify the roles of wordings in passages of text, and employs the tools of social theorists to explain why they make the meanings they do (Martin & Rose 2007:3 Working with Discourse ) .（語篇分析既借助語法學(xué)家的工具識別文本中語句所扮演的角色，又采用社會學(xué)家的工具解釋這些語句為何能傳達(dá)它們所表達(dá)的含義。）N

11、amely we language users can use grammatical system or grammatical rules to identify the roles enacted by the participants in general communications :speakerhearer(present/absent/potential), writerreader (present/absent/potential) by the participants in sentence semantics and their Thematic roles ide

12、ntified by Saeed in his Semantics(agent/patient/experiencer/beneficiary/instrument/goal source/location)4 You dont love me by an American writer, columnist, journalist, and humorist who battled a breast cancer and a deadly kidney disorder. And she as an American humorist achieved great popularity fo

13、r her newspaper column .5 What is kind of genre this text belong to? Is it an argument (between a parent and his/her child/ children) ? Is it just an essay talking about a social problemchildrens education? Is it a dialogue between the author as mother (fictional) and her children ? Is this text the

14、 very reply to her childrens (in reality/)complaints ? Is this text the authors personal experience as a mother as to how to teacher her children? (She addresses to her readers in general. YOU 2nd person plural should be taken as readers ) 6 We as discourse analysts can give many roles I and YOU in

15、the text can play . I (first person singular ) can be taken as a woman author/ writer, columnist, journalist; therefore the essay is her realization of a mother is. (EXPERIENCER) as a real mother/ /as a would-be mother (at moment she wrote this essay ,she was not a mother, some day she will be mothe

16、r) (AGENT) as a mother in imagination if she were a mother, she would tell her children how much a mother in the real world loves her child/children and how great a mother is .YOU as singular one of the authors children (present or absent) I loved you enough YOU as singular You dont love me! l is th

17、e childs father or mother YOU as plural real children of the author YOU as plural readers in general or readers who have been parents (How many times have your kids laid that one on you? 2 And how many times have you, as a parent, resisted the urge to tell them how much? 3In a word, YOU against the

18、text can be taken either as singular or plural. 7 I in the text has many voices to makeas mother/ author.8 The past tense I loved you enough indicates subjunctive mood (黃國文)。And I d rather take past tense in the text as a summary of the wisdom which was accumulated and passed from generation to gene

19、ration because wisdom and experience was past-oriented. Love from parents was given to their children before they grew up/before they were not old enough to understand it. 9 The producer of this discourse takes great care to make a choice of person (I or You) as subject in all 20 sentences .This can

20、 be interpreted as Unmarked Theme (the most common choice for the Theme of a clause is the Subject.(Martin & Rose 2007:178 ).Choices for unmarked Theme tend to fix our gaze, to maintain continuity of text and to help identifying the participants (聚焦我們的視線，維系語篇的連續(xù)性，識別參與者資源)。The Theme gives us an orien

21、tation to what is to come ;what I is going to do to his/her children LOVE. (Martin & Rose 2007:181 )10 Whats the theme of text or what does the author intend to tell us? Whats the conversational implicature?11 How is coherence established? Coherence in this text is established by parallelism and ellipsis(the red parts).12 Topicality in the text is maternity to children which is enacted and represented in the same and varied ways .By the same way love as a topic is duplicated 16 times (love is represented in similar syntacti