%0 Journal Article
%T Interpersonal Functions of Engagement Markers in TV interviews<br>电视访谈中介入标记语的人际功能
%A PANG Ji-xian
%A CHEN Ming-yao
%A <br>庞继贤
%A 陈明瑶
%J 浙江大学学报(人文社会科学版)
%D 2006
%I 
%X The Appraisal System proposed by Martin and White is an extension of Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics.It is a functional model of interpersonal meaning at the level of discourse semantics,aimed to explore,describe and explain the way language is used to evaluate,to adopt stances, to construct textual personas and to manage interpersonal relationships.The theory is concerned with the linguistic resources by which texts/speakers come to express,negotiate and naturalize particular inter-subjective and ultimately ideological positions.Within this broad scope,the theory focuses particularly on the language of evaluation,attitude and emotion.In the Appraisal System,evaluative resources are divided into three semantic domains,i.e.attitude,engagement and graduation.The engagement system is one of the options for expanding or contracting space for other voices in discourse,enabling an investigation of the dynamic management of other voices by the speaker/writer.In the engagement system,resources are dealt with for positioning the speaker's/author's voice with respect to the various propositions and proposals conveyed by a text.Engagement markers,a metadisocurse in nature,play an important role to achieve this purpose.In the past,studies of discourse markers have mainly focused on the marker's role of coherence in the text.Few attempts have been made to explore the semantics of evaluation these markers exhibit.On the other hand,the Appraisal System has so far analyzed the language of appraisal mainly from the perspective of lexis.The present study,starting from the engagement system,is an attempt to examine the interpersonal functions of engagement markers in the genre of TV intewiews.Within the engagement system framework,the engagement markers are divided into two groups: intra-vocalization group and extra-vocalization group.These markers are analyzed and discussed from the perspective of inter-subjective positioning with reference to context and Bakhtin's idea of dialogism and heteroglossia.The data are three interviews from the CCTV on the same topic and six people from different backgrounds joined in the talk.The analysis indicates that the TV host adopts different discourse strategies by making use of different engagement markers when interviewing people from different social backgrounds and when taking into account the target TV interviews.This represents an active communicative attitude.The interpersonal meaning realized by engagement markers is generated in interaction and constrained by context.Engagement markers play an important role in facilitating interaction between the TV host,interviewees and the TV audience at large and in making the interviews a success.Appraisal is a way to realize the interpersonal meaning of discourse.The concern in this study is with the meanings that are realized dynamically through a series of engagement markers in TV interviews.The research design is qualitative and interpretive in approach,aimed at an i
%K TV interviews
%K the Appraisal System
%K engagement system
%K engagement markers
%K interpersonal functions<br>电视访谈
%K 评价理论
%K 介入系统
%K 介入标记语
%K 人际功能
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