A Systemic Functional Approach to Code-switching in Chinese Magazines

摘要

With Halliday's functional grammar as the theoretical framework, this paper examines the functions and distributions of code-switching in three different types of magazines from the perspective of experiential, interpersonal, and textual metafunctions. It has found that in experiential function, code-switching plays the function of filling the vocabulary vacancy, quoting and abiding the cultural constraints; in interpersonal aspect, it plays the function of evaluation and involvement; in textual construction, the function of code-switching is mainly concentrated in lexical cohesion level. This paper tries to provide readers a better understanding of the functions of code-switching.