Textual Function Analysis of Different Translations of Jiang Xue

Abstract

Based on Halliday’s Systematic Functional Grammar(SFC), this research selects 4 English translation versions of the Chinese poem Jiangxue. Quantitative analysis is applied to analyze how textual function can be used to explore the artistic conception, theme of poems and the background of poets. The purpose of it is to enrich and widen the research dimension of textual function so that it can not only provide new research angles of view but also attend to attest the explanatory and the force of research, which is able to help readers to comprehensively understand the beauty conveyed by poems.