An Analysis of English Fairy Tales from the Perspective of Systemic-Functional Grammar

System function syntax has become a highly influential worldwide linguistic theory, its main founder Halliday. This theoretical system mainly consists of two parts: systemic grammar and functional grammar, they constitute the integral part of a complete frame structure of linguistic theory. System function syntax has been widely used in discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, and other areas. This fully reflects the systemic functional grammar huge role in theoretical research and practical application. Many scholars application system function syntax analysis of a variety of texts, including literary texts and non-literary texts. The fairy tale is a fantasy works of children's literature, much many readers all ages, especially children's readers. Previously many English fairy tale studies focused primarily on education, aesthetics, psychology and literature. This thesis Systemic Functional Grammar as a theoretical model to analyze the English fairy tale, trying to discover and understand the vocabulary in these fairy tales grammar system is how to achieve the function of language. This study to answer a few questions, has three objectives: the English fairy tale discourse transitivity system, the frequency of each process is like and what are the reasons? Second English The fairy tale is how the tone system to reflect the interpersonal function, why is this? third English fairy tale is how emic system to organize discourse, why? corpus of this study is fifteen English fairy tale selected from the group consisting of the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, published in 2002, \Specific analysis, The English fairy Discourse system function has the following characteristics: transitivity system, the largest proportion of material process, which is mainly by the impact of context and language field. Fairy tales are usually simple and interesting, this episode affect the use of the fairy language. Tone system, the present indicative majority, this is because the fairy tale is generally told to take the information directly to readers writing techniques. Modal analysis, the modality of ingredients than the Italian state-aging ingredients. Emic system, most of Topic Theme pronouns and simple nouns, only a small portion of all Thematic multiple Thematic small sentence Thematic and iconic Thematic. This shows that the fairy tale discourse spoken discourse tends to be more, rather than written discourse, by the impact of the context and the simple language of the fairy tale.