Cross-Cultural Communication
A Discourse Analysis of Mrs. Bracknell’Dramatic Speech Under Interpersonal Function
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Based on the theory of interpersonal function in systematic functional linguistics, this study will explore the literary significance of the play The Importance of Being Earnest from the perspectives of mood, modality and appraisal system. Mrs. Bracknell’s dialogue will be chosen as the corpus, and qualitative and quantitative research methods will be used to analyze the speech characteristics of the protagonists in the dialogue. This paper will explore the role and influence of dialogic language on the construction of character characteristics and interpersonal relationships, and will, hopefully, help to prove the feasibility of using systemic functional linguistics to interpret literary works.
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