This thesisanalyzes the expletives in the film Godfather with the theoretical frame of Halliday's(1985) System-Functional Linguistics Theory,especially from the perspective of the textual function of expletives,namely,we will elaborate the textual function with the film Godfather as the example. The expletives may be very appropriate and necessary in certain situation since they have a cohesive function.
This thesis put the expletives into the whole language system to analyze, using the frame of the Halliday's(1985) System-Functional Linguistics Theory. The expletives can be analyzed on the sentential level, including the ideational function and the interpersonal function.
