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An Analysis of Oxymoron from the Perspective of Register and
Metafunctions of Language
Introduction
1. Mary's husband now seems to be an intimate stranger to her.
2. It's really a bitter-sweet memory.
3. Here is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
4. His honour rooted in dishonour stood
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
The above sentences are different in that they each have a pair of words that carry contradictory meanings within themselves. This kind of sentences also makes their appearance in Chinese, for example,
《孔乙己》的结尾:“我到现在终于没有见—大约孔乙己的确死了。”
我爱热闹,也爱冷静;爱群居,也爱独处。(朱自清《荷塘月色》)
有的人活着,他已经死了;有的人死了,他还活着。(臧克家《有的人》)
In the field of Rhetoric, this linguistic phenomenon is a way to achieve prominence, so that the sentence can be impressive while at the same time express a mixed situation or feelings. It is called oxymoron. In the following part, I am going to analyze oxymoron in Chinese language using Halliday?s theory of register and metafunctions of language.
1.Theoretical framework---Halliday’s theory of register and metafunctions of language
Halliday and Hasan define register as "a configuration of meanings that are typically associated with a particular situational configuration of field, mode, and tenor...[which must] include the expressions, the lexico-grammatical and phonological features, that typically accompany or REALISE these meanings" (1985:39).
Field is defined by Gregory and Carroll's as: "Field of discourse is the consequence of the user's purposive role, what his language is 'about', what experience he is verbalizing, 'what is going on' through language" (1978:7).
Mode is slightly more problematic. Halliday's initial definition of mode as "the medium or mode of the language activity" (1964:91) is somewhat circular. He later clarifies this as "the symbolic organization of the text, the status that it has, and its function in the context, including the channel" (1985:12). Mode is perhaps best seen as the physical medium of communication.
Gregory and Carroll's defined tenor as the "relationship the user has with his audience" (1978:8).
What are closely related with register are Halliday's view on language functions.In his opinion, language must accomplish certain functions that are decided by the needs of human; the functions are changeable and are of infinite possibilities, but they can be concluded into several finite abstract functions, whicm are called "metafunctions" (Halliday, 1967; 1973). He thinks that ideational, interpersonal and textual functions consist of the metafunctions of all languages.
The three parameters of register are not completely corresponding to the three metafunctions of language. However, field is oftentimes more related to the ideational function of language, for the ideational function of language enables a person to talk about his experience of the world, which is often his subject matter when he speaks. Tenor is “the "relationship…” so it is usually associated with the interpersonal function of language. Mode is the channel of discourse so it relates most closely to the textual function of language.
In this paper, samples are analyzed in terms of register and the metafunctions of language so as to unveil the linguistic effect achieved by the employment of oxymoron.
2.Case analysis
Oxymoron is the yoking together of two expressions which are incompatible, so that in combination they have no conceivable literal reference to reality. (Leech,
1969:132) Like other figures of speech, it is a kind of semantic deviations, that is deep-structure deviation, which refers to semantic deviation, which may be defined as “linguistic effects involving something odd in the cognitive meaning of a certain linguistic unit, e. g. a word or a phrase” (Leech, 1969:131) The following examples is taken from Chinese classic literatures. One is from The Scholars (《儒林外史》) .
萧金铉道:“今日对名花,聚良朋,不可无诗。我们即席分韵,何如?”杜慎卿笑道:“先生,这是而今诗社里的故套。小弟看来,觉得雅得这样俗,还是清谈为妙。” (儒林外史，第二十九回)
In this conversation, they were talking about activities they should have because there was a gathering-together of friends. Sitting in a garden of beautiful flowers, Xiao Jinxuan (萧金铉) proposed to compose rhymes extemporaneously one by one. However Du Shenqing (杜慎卿) disagreed with him and thought what Xiao Jinxuan (萧金铉) proposed was “a vulgar way to show refinement ” (“雅得这样俗”) as it had long been the practice in poetry societies.
It can be easily recognized that t he phrase “a vulgar way to show refinement ”(“雅得这样俗”) has a kind of textual prominence. T he word “refinement” is to show one?s good taste while the word “vulgar”(俗) indicates a lack of taste, so the word “refinement” is usually not modified by vulgar. Just like the above conservation, choosing rhymes to compose poetry is something that can show one?s taste from an ordinary person?s eyes, however because it had long been the practice in poetry societies, it no longer regard as a kind of refinement by scholars. For them, this kind of activities was far too common, so it reduced to a vulgar activity for them. Here words with contrasting meanings are combined togeth er so that it can arouse readers? interest in it. It is the wording that makes the phrase seems unique.
The subject matter of this conversation is about choosing rhymes to make poetry when friends gathered. The tenor of the sentence here can at the first place refers to Du Shenqign(杜慎卿) …s attitude on the subject matter and at the second place it indicates the relationship between Du Shenqign(杜慎卿) and his listener Xiao Jinxuan
(萧金铉). The combination of “vulgar and refinement ” in expressing his opinion shows that Du Shenqign(杜慎卿) thought what Xiao Jinxuan (萧金铉) regarded as refinement is a kind of vulgar thing to do. That is, Du disagreed with Xiao Jinxuan (萧金铉)?s opinion and his attitude toward the subject matter was negative. This phrase also revealed their interpersonal relationship of Xiao Jinxuan (萧金铉) and Du Shenqign(杜慎卿). It showed that Du Shenqign(杜慎卿) and Xiao Jinxuan (萧金铉) are both scholars and that though Du Shenqign(杜慎卿) said he was the younger one(小弟) and he called Xiao Jinxuan (萧金铉) “Sir”(先生). The phrase used here indicated that Du Shenqign(杜慎卿) was the one who are more authoritative for if he was not, he would say things like that.
Conclusion
By using the methodology of register and matafunctions of language, oxymoron was probed into. It is clear that the knowledge in the field of register and matafunctions of language helps to analyze the examples in an all-round way, so that the deep meanings of the passages are revealed. Trough the analysis, a better understanding of oxymoron and the passages can be obtained so that it can lay a sound basis for the translation of sentences in which oxymoron is used.
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