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Grammatical metaphor: Distinguishing success
Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2016Abstract This paper presents a systematic analysis of ten first-year university learners' texts. The texts are exposition essays written at the conclusion of the students' first semester of university study and collected as part of the Macquarie University Longitudinal Learner Corpus (MQLLC).
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Grammatical metaphor and grammaticalization
Functions of Language, 2018Abstract The aim of this paper is to explore possible connections between ‘grammatical metaphor’ and ‘grammaticalization’, especially with a view to identifying synergies and fostering cross-fertilization of insights between SFL and ‘grammaticalization theory’.
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Grammatical metaphor and functional idiomaticity
Yearbook of Phraseology, 2017AbstractOne of the main challenges for research in the field of Phraseology is to discover how phraseological combinations can be integrated into the grammatical rules they seem to contradict. This paper explains some theoretical concepts which may shed some light on the relation between regular syntax and phraseological fixedness.
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A Grammatical Metaphor Word List
TESOL QuarterlyAbstractResearch has identified a particularly useful lexicogrammatical resource that language learners need in order to develop academic literacy, that of grammatical metaphor (GM). GM enables the wordy expression characteristic of informal, spoken discourses to be reorganized into the cohesive and abstracted expression valued in academic texts ...
Darby McGrath, Cassi Liardét
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Metaphoric motivation in grammatical structure
2011This chapter is concerned with the use of non-motion verbs in the caused-motion construction. Their literal or figurative motional interpretation is claimed to be motivated by high-level conceptual metaphors. Typically, these non-motion verbs are lexically intransitive and coerced into transitive verbs in the caused-motion construction. The goal of the
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Grammatical Metaphor in Clause Combining
2019The research based on the Crown corpus, the BNC, and the COCA shows that different types of clausal relation have different genre distribution trends. The research based on the COHA shows that different patterns of clause combining have different diachronic distribution trends, and these distribution trends are to a great extent complementary: the ...
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The persuasiveness of metaphor in advertising
Psychology and Marketing, 2022Felix Septianto +2 more
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