从概念功能看《阿甘正传》中的人物对白
摘 要
语言既是一种交流方式，也是一门艺术,与电影更是息息相关。经典电影《阿甘正传》的成功与电影中的人物对白密不可分。《阿甘正传》讲述了阿甘生平的经历。电影的主人公阿甘是一名弱智儿童，对语言过程使用的能力很差。在他的一生中经历了朋友亲人的离别，战争等重大挫折。随着经历的增加，他对语言过程的转换能力也相应增强。在系统功能语言学的框架下，韩礼德提出语言的三个纯理功能（概念功能、人际功能、语篇功能）。其中，概念功能指的是言语对人们在现世界以及内心世界中各种经历加以表达的功能，并通过相应的语义系统得以体现：及物系统。概念功能还包括逻辑功能。本文主要以概念功能为理论基础对电影《阿甘正传》中的人物对白进行及物性系统分析。及物系统涵盖六个过程（物质过程、心理过程、言语过程、关系过程、行为过程、存在过程）。本文将从这六个过程具体分析《阿甘正传》电影中对白的特点，从而进一步从语言过程的使用情况看阿甘与其他人的区别，以及阿甘自身的变化。并以此证明概念功能对理解电影的意义，并对系统功能语法提出实际应用的可能性。
关键词：纯理功能 及物系统 过程 阿甘正传
Analysis of the Dialogues in Forrest Gump from Ideational Function
Abstract
Language is a means of communication, is also an art. And the movie is closely related. With the successful movie classic film Forrest Gump in close dialogue. Forrest Gump tells the story of Gump’s life experience. Gump the hero of the film, is a mentally handicapped child, and the ability to use the language is very poor. In his life he has experienced the parting of friends and relatives, war and other major setbacks. With the increase of experience, his ability to transform the language process is also increased accordingly. Under the framework of systemic functional linguistics, the three metafunctions of language proposed by Halliday (ideational function, interpersonal function and textual function). Among them, the ideational function refers to using the speech to express the experience of people in the real world and the inner world, it can be reflected through the corresponding semantic system: transitivity system. The ideational function also includes logic function. This paper mainly uses ideational functional as the theoretical basis to analyze the characters of of the dialogues in Forrest Gump from transitivity analysis and logical function. The physical system covers six processes (physical process, mental process, verbal process, relational process, behavioral process, and existential process). The paper will have an analysis of the dialogue’s features through the six processes, thus further from the usage of language process see the difference between Forrest and others, as well as Forrest Gump’s own changes. And to prove the significance of ideational function on the film, and put forward the possibility of the practical application of the system functional grammar.
Key Words: metafunctions transitivity process Forrest Gump
Contents
1 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 1
2 Literature Review……………………………………………………………………………………………. 2
3 The meaning and content of the ideational function…………………………………………………. 4
3.1 The six process of Transitivity system…………………………………………………………. 4
3.2 Logical function……………………………………………………………………………………… 7
4 The six processes in transitivity system in Gump’s youth periods………………………………. 7
4.1 The dialogue among the characters in the six processes…………………………………. 7
4.2 The difference among the characters from the proportion analysis of six processes 11
5 The change of proportion of the six processes in Gump’s adulthood………………………… 13
5.1 The social distance of the characters from the six process…………………………….. 13
5.2 Gump’s two monologue to see the transformation of language process……….. 14
6 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 16
Works Cited…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 19
Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………………………….. 21
