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Grammatical metaphor and grammaticalization

Functions of Language, 2018
Abstract 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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Operationalizing grammatical metaphor

Folia Linguistica
Abstract Nominal grammatical metaphor (NGM), as theorised within systemic functional linguistics (SFL), typically refers to cases where a process is ‘metaphorically’ encoded through nominal resources, rather than its typical encoding through the clause.
Lise Fontaine, Miriam Taverniers, Alex Carr, Stella Neumann   +3 more
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Cognition of Grammatical Metaphor and Reading Comprehension

2011 Seventh International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids, 2011
Based on Halliday's concept and reclassifications of grammatical metaphor, and the theory of reading processes, this paper explores the cognition of grammatical metaphor and its application in EFL reading in China. It aims at testifying the influence of cognition of grammatical metaphor on EFL reading comprehension, and the research can help improve ...
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Ideational grammatical metaphor

Languages in Contrast, 2004
In this paper I want to explore the systemic-functional notion of ‘grammatical metaphor’ from a cross-linguistic perspective. After a brief introduction to the concept of ‘grammatical metaphor’, I shall discuss the distinction between ‘congruent’ and ‘metaphorical’ encodings of meaning, as well as the distinction between rankshift, transcategorization,
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Grammatical metaphors and there-insertion in Danish

2014
Transitive verbs are in general not allowed in there-constructions in Danish, but a small subset is, and this paper gives an explanation. We suggest two constraints on there-insertion, a subject with the semantic role of themeand an empty object position, and show how the subset of verbs meets these constraints while other transitives do not.
Bjerre, Anne, Bjerre, Tavs
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Grammatical metaphor: Distinguishing success

Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 2016
Abstract 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 in translation

2022
Arndt Heilmann, Tatiana Serbina, Jonas Freiwald, Stella Neumann   +3 more
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Metaphoric motivation in grammatical structure

2011
This 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 ...
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Grammatical Metaphor in Clause Combining

2019
The 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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Complexity of grammatical metaphor: an entropy-based approach

Semiotica, 2023
Jiangping Zhou
exaly