语篇案例分析1

"You Don't Love Me!"

"You don't love me!" [l]

How many times have your kids laid that one [you love them] on you? [2]

And how many times have you, as a parent, resisted the urge to tell them

how much [you love them]? [3]

Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them [you love them]. [4]

I loved you enough to bug you about where you were going, with whom,

and what time you would get home. [5]

I loved you enough to insist you buy a bike with your own money that

we could afford and you couldn't. [6]

I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover your hand-picked

friend was a creep. [7]

I loved you enough to make you return a Milky Way with a bite out of it to a drug-store and confess, "I stole this." [8]

I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned

your bedroom, a job that would have taken me fifteen minutes. [9]

I loved you enough to say, "Yes, you can go to Disney World on Mother's Day." [10] I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment, disgust and tears

in my eyes. [11]

I loved you enough not to make excuses for your lack of respect or your

bad manners. [12]

I loved you enough to admit that I was wrong and ask for your forgiveness. [13]

I loved you enough to ignore "what every other mother" did or said. [14]

I loved you enough to let you stumble, fall, hurl and fail. [15]

I loved you enough to let you assume the responsibility for your own actions,

at six, ten, or sixteen. [16]

I loved you enough to figure you would lie about the party being chaperoned,

but forgave you for it ... after discovering 1 was right. [17]

I loved you enough to shove you off my lap, let go of your hand, be mute

to your please ... so that you had to stand alone. [18]

I loved you enough to accept you for what you are, not what I wanted you to be. r l9] But most of all, I loved you enough to say no when you hated me for it.

That was the hardest part of all. [20]

Analysis：

1What’s a social discourse?

◆Social discourse rarely consist of just single clauses, rather social contexts develop as sequences of meanings comprising texts. Since each text is produced interactively between speakers, and between writers and (potential) readers, we can use it to interpret the interaction it manifests. (Martin & Rose 2007:1 Working with Discourse )

2 Why do we use language or what are functions of language from social aspect?

◆metafunctions of language in social activity: three general social functions that we use language for: (i) to enact our (paticipants) social relationships; (ii) to represent (表征) our experience to each other; and (iii) to organize our enactments and representations as meaningful text（组句成篇）.

3 What can discourse analysis do or how does discourse analysis do ?

◆Discourse analysis employs the tools of grammarians to identify the roles of wordings in passages of text, and employs the tools of social theorists to explain why they make the meanings they do (Martin & Rose 2007:3 Working with Discourse ).（语篇分析既借助语法学家的工具识别文本中语句所扮演的角色，又采用社会学家的工具解释这些语句为何能传达它们所表达的含义。）Namely we language users can use grammatical system or grammatical rules to identify the roles enacted by t he participants in general communications :

speaker←hearer(present/absent/potential), writer←→reader (present/absent

/potential)

by t he participants in sentence semantics and their Thematic roles identified by Saeed in his Semantics

(agent/patient/experiencer/beneficiary/instrument/goal source/location) 4 You don’t love me by an Am erican writer, columnist, journalist, and humorist

who battled a breast cancer and a deadly kidney disorder. And she as an Am erican humorist achieved great popularity for her newspaper column ...

5 What is kind of genre this text belong to?

◆Is it an argument (between a parent and his/her child/ children) ?

◆ Is it just an essay talking about a social problem—children’s education?

◆ Is it a dialogue between the author as m other (fictional) and her children ?

◆Is this text the very reply to her children’s (in reality/)complaints ?

◆Is this text the author’s personal experience as a mother as to how to teacher

her children? (She addresses to her readers in general. ‘YOU’[2nd person plural]

should be taken as readers )

6 We as discourse analysts can give m any roles I and YOU in the text can play . I