The Analysis of Garden Path Phenomenon from Transitivity in SFL

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10.2991/icemet-16.2016.422How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Systemic Functional Linguistics; Transitivity; Garden Path Phenomenon

Abstract

Garden Path Phenomenon (GPP), proposed by Bever (1970), is one of the most widely discussed topics concerning different types of ambiguities and it has been studied from aspects of semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, etc for the last four and a half decades throughout the world. Systemic Functional Linguistics, proposed by M.A.K. Halliday (1985), is a general linguistics theory which is said to be able to explain all kinds of language phenomena. Hence, in this paper, GPP will be analyzed from one subsystem of SFL-Transitivity System to demonstrate that SFL is a workable approach to the study of GPP.

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AU  - Wei Zhang
AU  - Yao Zhao
AU  - Shanshan Wang
PY  - 2016/05
DA  - 2016/05
TI  - The Analysis of Garden Path Phenomenon from Transitivity in SFL
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Economy, Management and Education Technology
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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