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【Abstract】The thesis，based on Halliday’s systemic functional grammar，aims to study the interpersonal meaning realized by mood system in job advertisements relating to Business English talents needs，and then to find out how the realization of interpersonal meaning in job advertisements reflects companies’ Business English talents needs.
【Key Words】job advertisements； interpersonal meaning； mood
1.Halliday.s Systemic Functional Grammar
Halliday（1994）claims lexical-grammatical resources of interpersonal meaning which are realized throughout the text are mood and the related patterns of modality，intensification，and even evaluative devices.According to him，interpersonal meaning can be comprehended from two aspects： interactional and attitudinal.In this thesis，the author focused on the interactional aspect of interpersonal meaning，mood.
2.Data collection and processing
Shi Hui（2010）pointed out that Business English graduates.occupational directions mainly concerned with the following job positions namely，salesmen，assistants，secretaries，customer service cooperators，trading specialists，translators/interpreters，and teachers.In data collection，all the samples are searched with these key words and then 49 samples are randomly selected in terms of these occupational directions from the recruiting websites，such as professional recruiting websites on the Internet，i.e.www.monster.com，as well as the World Top recruiting websites.
In the data processing procedure，both quantitative and qualitative research methods are applied in this thesis.In mood system，the distribution and frequencies of typical and non-typical mood structures in the samples are manually counted.
3.Data analysis
As is showed in Table 1-1，the declarative mood structure functioning as statement accounts for a large proportion，57.78%，which proves that declarative mood structure in job advertisements relating to Business English talents needs is the main mood structure to realize the role of giving information.Offer with a meaning of giving something to the listener is one of the primary speech functions in systemic functional grammar.In discourse of job advertisements on Business English talents needs，the non-typical mood structure of offer realized by declarative mood structure is mainly utilized to give information，accounting for 16.26%.Imperative clause is to ask somebody to do something or give an order.As a non-typical mood structure in giving information，imperative mood structure accounts for 5.59%.Imperative mood is a typical mood structure in action demanding，as is showed in Table 1-1，imperative mood as command accounts for 17.31% in total mood structures.Interrogative mood as question is the other typical mood structure in action demanding.In the samples，there are 11 interrogative mood structures functioning as question，merely accounting for 0.96%.It is known that command is typically realized by imperative mood，while it can also be realized by declarative mood structure.In the samples，command which is realized by non-typical mood structure，declarative mood structure in demanding actions，accounts for 1.22%.And it mainly occurs in the part of requirements.Modulated declarative mood structure used to realize the speech function of question in demanding actions accounts for 0.87%.It is noted that“if…”structure，a conditional adverbial clause in traditional grammar，is discovered to be frequently used to convey interpersonal meaning in the job advertisements on Business English talents needs.Elliptical structures make a frequent appearance to give information about requirements.They mainly appear in declarative mood structure，accounting for 20.45%.
4.Summary
In this thesis，the author analyzed the interpersonal meaning reflected by mood system.It is known that in job advertisements，companies.talents needs are reflected in parts of job description，job responsibilities/duties and job requirements.In the process of mood system analysis of the sample texts，companies’ talents needs are expressed by imperative mood structure as command，declarative as command，some modulated declarative as question as well as elliptical structures.It，more or less，gives Business English majors some insights in writing and guides them to strengthen their abilities in a specific field.
Reference：
[1]Halliday，M.A.K.（2008）.An introduction to functional grammar.Beijing：Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
[2]石慧（2010）.商务英语课程设置的需求分析研究[D].黑龙江大学.
[3]李战子.胡圣炜（2009）.汉英外交文献语言特点的功能语言学阐释[J].外国语文，12（6）.
【Key Words】job advertisements； interpersonal meaning； mood
1.Halliday.s Systemic Functional Grammar
Halliday（1994）claims lexical-grammatical resources of interpersonal meaning which are realized throughout the text are mood and the related patterns of modality，intensification，and even evaluative devices.According to him，interpersonal meaning can be comprehended from two aspects： interactional and attitudinal.In this thesis，the author focused on the interactional aspect of interpersonal meaning，mood.
2.Data collection and processing
Shi Hui（2010）pointed out that Business English graduates.occupational directions mainly concerned with the following job positions namely，salesmen，assistants，secretaries，customer service cooperators，trading specialists，translators/interpreters，and teachers.In data collection，all the samples are searched with these key words and then 49 samples are randomly selected in terms of these occupational directions from the recruiting websites，such as professional recruiting websites on the Internet，i.e.www.monster.com，as well as the World Top recruiting websites.
In the data processing procedure，both quantitative and qualitative research methods are applied in this thesis.In mood system，the distribution and frequencies of typical and non-typical mood structures in the samples are manually counted.
3.Data analysis
As is showed in Table 1-1，the declarative mood structure functioning as statement accounts for a large proportion，57.78%，which proves that declarative mood structure in job advertisements relating to Business English talents needs is the main mood structure to realize the role of giving information.Offer with a meaning of giving something to the listener is one of the primary speech functions in systemic functional grammar.In discourse of job advertisements on Business English talents needs，the non-typical mood structure of offer realized by declarative mood structure is mainly utilized to give information，accounting for 16.26%.Imperative clause is to ask somebody to do something or give an order.As a non-typical mood structure in giving information，imperative mood structure accounts for 5.59%.Imperative mood is a typical mood structure in action demanding，as is showed in Table 1-1，imperative mood as command accounts for 17.31% in total mood structures.Interrogative mood as question is the other typical mood structure in action demanding.In the samples，there are 11 interrogative mood structures functioning as question，merely accounting for 0.96%.It is known that command is typically realized by imperative mood，while it can also be realized by declarative mood structure.In the samples，command which is realized by non-typical mood structure，declarative mood structure in demanding actions，accounts for 1.22%.And it mainly occurs in the part of requirements.Modulated declarative mood structure used to realize the speech function of question in demanding actions accounts for 0.87%.It is noted that“if…”structure，a conditional adverbial clause in traditional grammar，is discovered to be frequently used to convey interpersonal meaning in the job advertisements on Business English talents needs.Elliptical structures make a frequent appearance to give information about requirements.They mainly appear in declarative mood structure，accounting for 20.45%.
4.Summary
In this thesis，the author analyzed the interpersonal meaning reflected by mood system.It is known that in job advertisements，companies.talents needs are reflected in parts of job description，job responsibilities/duties and job requirements.In the process of mood system analysis of the sample texts，companies’ talents needs are expressed by imperative mood structure as command，declarative as command，some modulated declarative as question as well as elliptical structures.It，more or less，gives Business English majors some insights in writing and guides them to strengthen their abilities in a specific field.
Reference：
[1]Halliday，M.A.K.（2008）.An introduction to functional grammar.Beijing：Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
[2]石慧（2010）.商务英语课程设置的需求分析研究[D].黑龙江大学.
[3]李战子.胡圣炜（2009）.汉英外交文献语言特点的功能语言学阐释[J].外国语文，12（6）.