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1、厶U1厶—1一第35卷第3期ChineseJournalofAppliedLinguistics(Quarterly)Vb1．35No．3InterpersonalFunctionsofEpistemicGAOQiupingBeijingNormalUniversity／CapitalUniversityofEconomicsandBusinessAbstractInsemantics，epistemicmodalityexpresseswriters’commitmenttotheirpropositions．Inpragmatics，epistemicmodalityper

2、formsinterpersonalfunctions．Todate，itspolitenessandnegotiativefunctionshavebeenstudied，butitsconstructivefunctionseemstohavefailedtoattractresearchers’attention．Putsimply,epistemicmodalvariantscanbeusedtoconstructsocialreality,includingwriters’identity,writer—readerrelationsandthecorrespondi

3、ngdiscoursecommunityinwhichwritersandreaderslive．ThepurposeofthispaperistoprovideamorecompletepictureoftheinterpersonalfunctionsofepistemicmodalityandtoraiseChineselearners’awarenessoftheimportanceofusingsuchwordsappropriately．words：epistemicmodality；politenessfunction；negotiativefunction；co

4、nstructivefunction；appropriateuse1．IntroductionTheearliestresearchofmodalitywasconductedprimarilyintheareasoflogicandtraditionalgrammar,withafocusonitssemanticmeanings．Halliday’S(2000)SystemicFunctionalLinguisticsmakesfinedistinctionsofitssemanticmeaningsandputsmodalityunderthenameofinterper

5、sonafmetaphor．Thistermiswell—chosenfortworeasons．First，itpointsouttheinterpersonalfunctionsofmodalexpressions，whichhavebeenpreviouslyoverlooked．Second，itconsiderswordsandexpressionsofmodalityasametaphoricallanguage，thatis，somethingimplicitratherthanexplicit．WhatisworthmentioningisthatHallida

6、y'sfoCUSseemstobeonsemanticdistinctionsofmodalityratherthanonitspragmaticfunctions，althoughthetwoaspectsarecloselyrelated．Inmorerecentyears，352GAOQiupingsomescholars(e．g．，Li，2002)havebeguntopayattentiontotheinterpersonalfunctionsofmodality,amongwhichthetwomostimportantarepolitenessandnegotia

7、tive．ThesupportingtheoriesincludeBrownandLevinson’sfacetheory(1978)andBakhtin’stheoryofheteroglossia(trans．，1998a，1998b)．Theabovetwofunctionsareimportantbuttheyarenotexhaustive．Theauthorofthispaperbelievesthatthereisstillanotherfunction，i⋯etheconst