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A Systemic Functional Typology of MOOD

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Chapter 1 is the introduction chapter of the book. It begins with a survey of the uses of the term ‘mood’ in linguistic studies. The survey will cover the etymology of the term ‘mood’ and studies on mood in both Western linguistics and modern Chinese linguistics. It is revealed that the term ‘mood’ has been used in at least three ways frequently, namely verbal mood, sentence mood, and notional mood, all of which date back to ancient Greek grammarians and remain popular in modern linguistic studies. The current book, for some reasons, will concentrate on sentence mood. After the survey, we will provide a working definition of mood in Sect. 1.2, and in Sect. 1.3, we will elucidate that mood as a grammatical category is also a grammatical system. The research object of the book is the MOOD system instead of a particular mood type. Then in Sect. 1.4 we will define several terms related to mood and turn to a brief introduction to systemic functional typology in Sect. 1.5. At last, we will present the research objectives and research questions in Sect. 1.6 and the organization of the book in Sect. 1.7.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The terms ‘verbal mood’, ‘sentential mood’, and ‘notional mood’ are borrowed mainly from Portner (2009). See also Jespersen (1924), Harnish (1994), and Portner (2018).

  2. 2.

    The Chinese term yǔqì (语气) is commonly translated as ‘mood’, but He (1992) translates yǔqì (语气) as ‘modality’, which is more commonly translated as qíngtài (情态) in Chinese. Thus, his use of ‘modality’ here should be understood as ‘mood’.

  3. 3.

    As mentioned in Footnote 2, the Chinese term yǔqì (语气) is commonly translated as ‘mood’. Wang (1994) himself translated it as ‘emotional mood’. Accordingly, he translated yǔqìcí (语气词) as ‘emotional particle’ instead of ‘mood particle’.

  4. 4.

    The translations in the brackets are given by Wang (1944) himself.

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Li, D. (2023). Introduction. In: A Systemic Functional Typology of MOOD. The M.A.K. Halliday Library Functional Linguistics Series. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8821-9_1

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