Transitivity Analysis of Chinese Leader’s New Year Greeting in 2021 Based on the Systemic Functional Grammar

Journal: Journal of Higher Education Research DOI: 10.32629/jher.v3i3.884

Yanhong Guo

Shanxi Normal University, Taiyuan 030031, Shanxi, China

Abstract

Before the New Year eve in 2021, President Xi Jinping delivered New Year Greeting through China Media Group and the Internet. From the perspective of transitivity theory in systemic functional language, it is of great significance to study the text of President Xi’s New Year’s greeting in 2021. Exploring the distribution of various process types and the use of main participants in the discourse can not only gain an understanding of the conceptual significance, but also know President Xi’s speaking style of humorous, kind, rich in content and pragmatic, showing the unique style of national leader.

Keywords

systemic functional grammar, New Year Greeting, transitivity analysis

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