本书以系统功能语言学为理论框架,多角度、全方位地探讨语境对语篇的影响。全书共分七章,第一章讨论本研究的原理、目标、研究方法及论文的总体结构;第二章对现有的有关语境和语篇的研究进行了综述;第三章探讨语场对语篇的影响;第四章探讨基调对语篇的影响;第五章分析语式对语篇的影响;第六章分析语境之间的相互影响以及这种互动可能对语篇产生的影响;第七章总结了本书的贡献,同时指出不足之对,并对未来研究提出若干建议。
1.1.1 Motivation of this study
1.1.1.1 Sterility of structuralist studies of language
1 . 1 . I .2 Limitations of Z. S. Harris 's Discourse Analysis
1.1.2 Insufficiency of Halliday's exploration of context and text
1.1.3 Significance of this current study
1.2Research Methodology
1 .3 Collection and selection of corpora
1 .3. 1 Data collection and selection
1.3.2 Justification for the adoption of spoken prose as corpora
1.3.3 Transcription of real-life spoken data
1.4 Theoretical framework of this study
1 .5 Structure of this research
Chapter 2 Literature Review on Context of and Text
2. I Introductory remarks 1
2.2.1 Context defined by different linguists
2.2.1. I Malinowski's definition of context
2.2.1.2 J. R. Firth's definition of context
2.2.1.3 Halliday and Hasan's notion of context
2.2.1.4 Roman Jacobson's definition of context
2.2.1.5 D. Hymes 's definition of context
2.2.1.6 Elinor Ochs's definition of context
2.2.1.7 CHEN Wangdao's definition of context
2.2.2 Cognitive context 3