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The Application of Systemic Functional Linguistics in Literary Text Teaching
LIU Sha, YE Feifei
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8072/2021.01.001
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China; Freelance Translator, Shanghai, China
One of the important jobs for the teacher teaching literary text reading is to develop the students’ habit of detecting the linguistic clues to interpret the text or to discover linguistic evidence to support their interpretations. Systemic functional linguistics (SFL), developed by Halliday, is both a theory of language and an approach to the analysis of texts and their contexts of use. This linguistic framework can be effectively applied to literary text teaching. The writer aims to explore the applicability of this linguistic theory in literary text teaching and the strategies by a tentative analysis of the novella The Old Man and the Sea in the SFL framework.
literary text, teaching, transitivity, interpersonal metafunction, textual metafunction
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