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Date: 21-Apr-2007
From: HE Hengxing < hehx at scnu.edu.cn >
Subject: An Alternative Perspective on Pseudo-clefts: Sphere Shifts in English

 

	
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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:14:39
From: HE Hengxing < hehx at scnu.edu.cn >
Subject: An Alternative Perspective on Pseudo-clefts: Sphere Shifts in English 
 


Institution: Sun Yat-sen University 
Program: English Language and Literature 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2004 

Author: HE Hengxing

Dissertation Title: An Alternative Perspective on Pseudo-clefts: Sphere Shifts
in English 

Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax


Dissertation Director(s):
Huang Guowen

Dissertation Abstract:

This Ph.D. thesis is intended to review studies on pseudo-clefts to date
and propose for them a new term, i.e. 'sphere shift,' from a systemic
functional perspective and on a qualitative basis.

The dissertation first reveals some problems of the existing descriptions
of pseudo-clefts, and then offers: (1) a construal of experience through
meaning in which pseudo-clefts are interpreted as sphere shifts, the
product of FTGF (i.e. focus opting, text-restructuring, grammar locating
and function-enacting) packaging; (2) a metaphorical-congruent analysis
(MCA), where sphere shifts are simultaneously interpreted in terms of both
metaphorical and congruent structures so as to overcome a major drawback of
'one sentence analyzed as two' in most existing studies; (3) a discussion
of the peripheral features of sphere shifts, whose processes and
participants as revealed by MCA are in disguise in a number of facets; (4)
a taxonomy of the discourse functions of sphere shifts. 





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