This thesisanalyzes the expletives in the film Godfather with the theoretical frame of Halliday's(1985) System-Functional Linguistics Theory,especially from the perspective of the textual function of expletives,na...This thesisanalyzes the expletives in the film Godfather with the theoretical frame of Halliday's(1985) System-Functional Linguistics Theory,especially from the perspective of the textual function of expletives,namely,we will elaborate the textual function with the film Godfather as the example. The expletives may be very appropriate and necessary in certain situation since they have a cohesive function.展开更多
文摘This thesisanalyzes the expletives in the film Godfather with the theoretical frame of Halliday's(1985) System-Functional Linguistics Theory,especially from the perspective of the textual function of expletives,namely,we will elaborate the textual function with the film Godfather as the example. The expletives may be very appropriate and necessary in certain situation since they have a cohesive function.