Systemic Functional Analysis of Thematic Structure in Legislative Discourse — Based on Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China

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10.2991/assehr.k.210313.013How to use a DOI?

Keywords

systemic functional analysis, thematic structure, legislative discourse analysis

Abstract

This study is devoted to analyze the thematic structure of Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China in light of the systemic functional linguistics. From the data analysis, the study indicates that the Law places the condition in the position of theme, and reflects that the legislative text has the scientific spirit of respecting the fact. The findings indicate that there are more use of the textual theme and the ideational theme to emphasize the thematic background and the zero-ratio use of interpersonal theme reflects the formality of the Law. The result shows that, in the marked thematic structure, the adverbial clause of condition and the one of time occupy a large proportion, which make a clear list of the objective situations existing in the enforcement procedure and thus it reflects the rigidity of the Law.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shifang Li
AU  - Yifan Wang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/15
TI  - Systemic Functional Analysis of Thematic Structure in Legislative Discourse — Based on Criminal Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 69
EP  - 72
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210313.013
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210313.013
ID  - Li2021
ER  -