What is it about?
This study aims to explore whether the God-human relationship built in traditional hymns and Contemporary Christian songs has experienced a change by carrying out a comparative analysis of their respective constructed interpersonal meanings. Combining Halliday’s framework with judgment in Martin and White’s Appraisal system, this study compares 100 CCSs and THs from the aspects of modality, judgment, mood and projected roles with the help of UAM Corpus Tool 3.0., with some changes of the original categories of judgment system due to the specific nature of the judged subject in the data.
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Why is it important?
Contemporary Christian songs (CCSs) are gaining more favor in Chinese churches than traditional hymns (THs) nowadays; however, many scholars have criticized the intimate relationship established with God in CCSs from the perspective of theology. This study looks into this issue from linguistic perspective, exploring it through the interpersonal meaning construed by linguistic resources.
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I hope that this paper could show what linguistic analysis could help the scholars in other fields. What's more, wrinting this paper was a great pleasure since it has co-author with one of my favourite students.
Lei Zhang
Tianjin Foreign Studies University
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This page is a summary of: A comparative study of interpersonal meanings of traditional hymns and contemporary Christian songs in China, Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies, November 2019, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/text-2019-0240.
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