Systemic functional linguistics is correlated with the translation study for the theory can be applied to analyze and evaluate the translations. The poem Deng Guanquelou and its translated versions can be approached and compared within the Hallidayan framework in so far as the translation processes and details can be better comprehended and described. The applicability and operability of functional grammar can be validated by virtue of the analysis of the translations.
The short story Hills Like White Elephants by Hemingway is created and characterized by the conversation between the man and the woman, which can be approached by the cooperative principle from the pragmatic perspective to investigate how the man and woman accomplish the pragmatic acts and how the author and the reader collaborate to produce the intended perlocutionary effects.
