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writing presents problems to budding academics, especially in keeping to the generic structure and the requisite word counts by the various publishers.
Chinwe R. Ezeifeka
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Grammatical Metaphor Constructions: Acquisition Analysis [PDF]
This article studies how L2 Russian speaking learners of English for Academic Purposes acquire the skill of grammatical metaphor phrasal inclusion. The study applies corpus methodology (Lancsbox concordance tools) and statistical analysis tools in order
Arina I. Galeyeva, Galina N. Gumovskaya
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Grammatical Metaphor in Scientific Discourse
The term grammatical metaphor is new in linguistics. It was introduced by M.A.K. Halliday in his monograph “An Introduction to Functional Grammar” (1985). The present paper concentrates on nominalized non-gerundive material processes, their semantic and
Solveiga Sušinskienė
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Exploring the use of grammatical metaphor in Indonesian EFL learners’ academic writing
Grammatical metaphor is considered to be the key linguistic resource in the creation of academic discourse. In a pedagogical context, identification of grammatical metaphor in students’ writing can be used as a measurement of students’ academic literacy ...
Nur Afifi
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Adjectivized Grammatical Metaphors in Daily Chinese Conversation [PDF]
This paper investigates the phenomenon of adjectival grammatical metaphor in everyday Chinese conversation, with the aim of determining its development and its relation to vocabulary structure.
Li Penglin
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Ideational semiosis: a tri-stratal perspective on grammatical metaphor [PDF]
This paper addresses the challenge of analysing texts for ideational grammatical metaphor. It undertakes this task from the perspective of recent work on field (Doran & Martin in press) and discourse semantics (Hao 2020a).
J R Martin
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Grammatical Metaphor refers to a set of lexico-grammatical choices offered by a language to create formality of expression and pithiness. Firstly, this linguistic feature was discussed by Halliday in 1985 who classified one of its types -the Ideational ...
Sobia Malik
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A corpus-based study of grammatical post-metaphorical expressions
In Systemic Functional Linguistics, meanings in semantic stratum could be realized by congruent/premetaphorical, metaphorical, or demetaphorical/post-metaphorical expressions in lexico-grammatical stratum.
Zhou Jiangping, Gao Yanmei
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Grammatical metaphor is attracting increasing interest, together with a stronger focus on non-literary texts as the subjects of analysis—text types where grammatical metaphor is most commonly used.
Mall Stålhammar
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Metaphernrealisierung in jordanischen arabischen Sprichwörtern: Eine explorative Studie / Metaphor Realization in Jordanian Arabic Proverbs: An Exploratory Study [PDF]
This paper aims at identifying the most common constructions that realise metaphor in a group of commonly used Jordanian Arabic proverbs. The metaphorical instances in the data were identified using the Metaphor Identification Procedure (cf.
Hani Abumathkour
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