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1、Nov.2008,Volume5,No.11(SerialNo.59)Sino-USEnglishTeaching,ISSN1539-8072,USATowardstext-themefromappraisaltheory:AfunctionalapproachtoPearlHarboraddresstothenationWUAn-ping(ForeignLanguagesCollege,NingboPolytechnic,Ningbo315800,China)Abstract:Text-theme,thew
2、ritingorspeakingmotive,isconstruedbeforecreationatthebasisofawriter’sorspeaker’sbackgroundandtypicalcognitivestructures.Thispaperattemptstoexploretext-themeinthePearlHarboraddresstothenationwithintheframeworkofappraisaltheoryfoundedbyJamesMartin,etal.,theex
3、cavationiscenteredonhowthegrammaticalresourcesofappraisalcandisclosetheaddressor’sevaluationofthetext-theme.Theaimforthestudyistotestifytheoperationalityandpracticabilityofappraisaltheorytowardstheexplorationontextanalysis.Itishopedthatthetheoreticalandprac
4、ticalsignificanceinthepresentexplorationoftext-themecanprovideinspirationsandnovelinsightsintherealmofEnglishlanguageteachingandtextanalysis.Keywords:text-theme;attitude;address1.IntroductionText-themeisthekernelmeaninginatext,whichisthewritingorspeakingmot
5、iveconstruedbeforecreationonthebasisofawriter’sorspeaker’sbackgroundandtypicalcognitivestructures.Hence,itistheintentionorpurposeofwriter’sorspeaker’screation,whichisasemanticconcept.Itcanbedividedintotwokinds,explicitnessandimplicitness.Asfortheexplicitnes
6、s,itreferstothespecificlinguisticentity,maybesomewords,certaingrammaticalelementsorcertainclauses,whichcanencodethetext-themeinthetext.Withregardtotheimplicitness,itisthetext-themewhichsurpassesthelinguisticsurfacemeaning,andisencapsulatedthegeneralsenseorp
7、urposeforthetextbyreaderorlistenerafterhavingfinishedreadingorlistening.Todate,nostudieshavebeenattemptedtoprobetext-themewithinappraisaltheory.Theresearcherwillgroundtheanalysisanddiscussionontheproblemonwhatisthefunctionoftheappraisaltowardstheexploration
8、oftext-themeinatextandchoosestheaddressPearlHarboraddresstothenationtoapplyappraisaltheorytotheexcavationonhowthegrammaticalresourcesofappraisalcandisclosetheaddressor’sevaluationoftext-theme.2.Apprais
