Fairy Tales Analysis and Geder Roles
Stylistic and Linguistic Analysis of a Literary Text Using Systemic Functional Grammar
Noriko Iwamoto
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Key words : functional grammar ; transitivity ; stylistics ; narrative ; gender
+. Introduction This article explores the relationship between linguistic structures and socially constructed meaning in a narrative text. By employing Halliday’s transitivity framework, the article attempts
to reveal the ideology and power relations that underpin a literary text from a semantico-grammatical point of view. This study seeks common ground where systemic grammar and narrative, which have long been considered separate disciplines, can meet.
+. + Narrative as a linguistically constructed world We humans beings often put our experiences and thoughts into stories. Narrative refers to storytelling, both written and spoken, including oral narrative. A narrative constructs a world using various linguistic resources. A narrative is a microcosm of how people act, feel, and think, and what they value as an individual or as a member of a community or institution. There are various methods for, and theories of, narrative analysis and its
presentation. One of the most widely adopted is that of Labov and Waletsky +301 , who presented structural stages for narrative
analysis that have been widely accepted. The stages are : +. Abstract, ,. Orientation, -. Complicating Action, .. Evaluation, /. Results / Resolution, /. Coda Labov and Waletsky +301 . , It is important to note the ways in which the structural stages of a narrative can be ordered, controlled, and even manipulated in order to encode ideological assumptions, and also to get across some ideas. This is especially true of the evaluation stage which is a sort of representation of narrative, where many linguistic
Noriko Iwamoto
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M.A.K.Halliday
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Key words : functional grammar ; transitivity ; stylistics ; narrative ; gender
+. Introduction This article explores the relationship between linguistic structures and socially constructed meaning in a narrative text. By employing Halliday’s transitivity framework, the article attempts
to reveal the ideology and power relations that underpin a literary text from a semantico-grammatical point of view. This study seeks common ground where systemic grammar and narrative, which have long been considered separate disciplines, can meet.
+. + Narrative as a linguistically constructed world We humans beings often put our experiences and thoughts into stories. Narrative refers to storytelling, both written and spoken, including oral narrative. A narrative constructs a world using various linguistic resources. A narrative is a microcosm of how people act, feel, and think, and what they value as an individual or as a member of a community or institution. There are various methods for, and theories of, narrative analysis and its
presentation. One of the most widely adopted is that of Labov and Waletsky +301 , who presented structural stages for narrative
analysis that have been widely accepted. The stages are : +. Abstract, ,. Orientation, -. Complicating Action, .. Evaluation, /. Results / Resolution, /. Coda Labov and Waletsky +301 . , It is important to note the ways in which the structural stages of a narrative can be ordered, controlled, and even manipulated in order to encode ideological assumptions, and also to get across some ideas. This is especially true of the evaluation stage which is a sort of representation of narrative, where many linguistic