Textual Resources of Some Selected Endangered Language Narratives
This paper is a preliminary report on an on-going research on systemic functional interpretation of some minority languages spoken in Thailand. The paper explores textual resources of selected narratives taken from selected endangered minority languages (Premsrirat 1995, 2007). The contribution of this paper is to add a textual account to the existing work on systemic functional descriptions of languages other than Thai (Patpong, 2006). The data have been drawn from some endangered language narratives taken from secondary sources (e.g., theses appendices, field notes). These endangered minority languages belong to three language families -Austroasiatic, Austronesian, and Sino-Tibetan language families. The study of endangered minority languages from their textual function perspective contributes to our understanding of their grammatical patterningTheme-Rheme structure, Theme selection, and Thematic organization -operating within narrative discourse. The paper starts with an account of Theme as resource for managing the flow of information in a text (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004; Matthiessen 1995a, 1995b). This is followed by an initial account of textual resources in those selected narratives. Some significant issues relating to the system of THEME -referential presumption (Matthiessen 2004: 780), conjunction resourcesare also mentioned.
textual resources endangered minority languages austroasiatic austronesian sinotibetan language families theme-rheme structure
Pattama PATPONG
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
国际会议
The 36th International Systemic Functional Congress(第36届国际系统功能语言学大会暨第十一届全国功能语言学研讨会ISFC36)
北京
英文
303-312
2009-07-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）