期刊名称：Revista Virtual de Estudos da Linguagem - ReVEL
电子版ISSN：1678-8931
出版年度：2006
卷号：4
期号：6
出版社：Gabriel de Ávila Othero
摘要：The theoretical framework of this paper will be Systemic Functional Linguistics (hereafter SFL) because this linguistic school states that the way texts are constructed is determined by the functions that those texts have in society. We have to be conscious of the fact that the novels, as any other text can be a complex phenomenon: “To a grammarian, text is a rich, many-faceted phenomenon that ‘means’ in many different ways.” (Halliday and Matthiessen, 20043: 3) As Halliday declares in his Introduction to Functional Grammar, one of the purposes for which linguistics is useful is “to understand literary and poetic texts, and the nature of verbal art” (Halliday, 19942: xxx). Our hypothesis in this article is that the recurrent use of reversed-pseudo cleft sentences has certain communicative implications that will be the object of this study. Our corpus of examples belong to the three novels written by Alan Paton: Cry, The Beloved Country (1948), Too Late The Phalarope (1971) and Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful (1983).
