searching the interpersonal meaning in tess of the d’urbervilles from metaphor of modality

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1、SearchingtheInterpersonalMeaninginTessoftheD’urbervillesfromMetaphorofModality　　【Abstract】BasedonHalliday’sinterpersonalfunctiontheory，thisthesiscarriesoutananalysisoftheinterpersonalmeaningofthecharacters’speechinthenovelTessoftheD’urbevillesmainlyfromtheaspectsofmodalitysystem.Theaimistorev

2、ealcharacters’attitudestowardeachother，toinfertheirrelationshipsandcharacteristics.Itishopedthattheanalysisofinterpersonalmeaningcontributestobetterinterpretcharactersandunderstandthisgreatwork.　　【Keywords】metaphorofmodality；interpersonalmeaning　　1.MetaphorofModality　　Asamatteroffact，meanings

3、madethroughmodalitycanalsoberealizedbyaclausebesidesmodalverbandmodaladjunct.Halliday（2000：354）referstothiskindofdeviceemployedinmodalityasthemetaphorofmodality，whichisbasedonthesemanticrelationshipofprojection.Hepointsoutthatthespeaker’sopinionregardingtheprobabilityiscodednotasamodalelement

4、withintheclausebutasaseparate，projectingclauseinahypotacticclausecomplex.Atthesametime，Hallidaysuggeststhatthebasicdistinctionthatdetermineshoweachtypeofmodalitywillberealizedistheorientation，i.e.“thedistinctionbetweensubjectiveandobjectivemodalityandbetweentheexplicitandimplicitvariants”（ibi

5、d：357）.Thompson（2000：60）namestheorientationofmodalityasmodalresponsibilityaccordingtohowfarthespeakeracceptsresponsibilityfortheattitudebeingexpressed.Intheinteraction，ifthespeakerwantstoexpresshisorherpersonaljudgmentorinclinationmoreexplicitly，themoresubjectiveorientationisindicated，e.g.“It

6、hinkMaryisill”.Butinsomecases，thespeakermightintendtoconcealhisorherpersonalviewpointorassessment，andthusthemoreobjectiveorientationisindicated，e.g.“It’squiteprobablethatMaryisill”.Therearefourtypesofmodalorientation：explicitsubjective，explicitobjective，implicitsubjectiveandimplicitobjective，

7、whichareshowninthefollowingTable.　　Subjective：ExplicitSubjective：ImplicitObjective：ImplicitObjective：Explicit　　Modalization：probabilityIthink[inmyopinion]TomknowsTomwillknowTomprobablyknows[inallprobability]It’slikelythatTomknows[Tomislikelyt