苏格兰公投英语新闻报道中名词化的研究_英语论文

A Study of Nominalization in English News Reports on Scottish Referendum

摘要

英语新闻语篇中所潜在着的意识形态信息，往往要通过名词化的语言形式来表达。基于这样的研究假设，本文选取“苏格拉公投”的部分英语新闻语篇，在系统功能语言学“三元功能”的理论框架之下，主要探究其名词化现象的概念功能、人际功能和语篇功能的体现。例如名词化概念功能的实体化、抽象化、浓缩化以及模糊化效果，人际功能中情态、评价意义的名词化机制，以及名词化语篇功能对权势构建所起的作用。研究表明：名词化过程可以被发话者充分利用，从而按照自己的意图构建特定的概念、人际与语篇意义，达到以语篇形式控制人们对世界的识解的意图，即在一定程度上操纵受话者对接受信息的解读。

关键词：“苏格兰公投”英语新闻；名词化；系统功能语法“三元功能”；意识形态

Abstract

Nominalization is often employed to convey ideological information in English news reports. In the light of this hypothesis and on the basis of the “three meta-functions” from Systemic Functional Linguistics, this thesis takes some English news reports on “Scottish Referendum” as examples to explore the realization of the ideational functions, the interpersonal functions and the textual/discoursal functions of nominalization. For instance, thingness, abstraction, condensation and fuzziness are realized by the ideational function, the nominalization of modality and appraisal meaning by the interpersonal function, and the function of nominalization in relation to its role in a power structure by the textual function. The study suggests that nominalization can be resorted to by the speakers/writers to construct the specifically ideational, interpersonal and textual meanings according to his/her intentions. Thus, through the control of the world by the texts and manipulating the reader’s interpretation of the texts, advantageous power relations are well constructed, especially in line with the ideologies to be conveyed.

Key words: English News Reports on Scottish Referendum; Nominalization; “three meta-functions” of Systemic Functional Linguistics; ideology