ARGUMENTATION DIFFERENCES IN ENL, ESL AND EFL LEARNERS: IDEATIONAL GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR ANALYSIS [PDF]
Ideational Grammatical Metaphor (IGM) plays a crucial role in achieving encapsulation and objectivity in academic writing (Thompson, 2014). This research investigates the use of IGM in expository essays written by English learners from different ...
Zahid Iqbal,Muhammad Farukh Arslan,Hira Haroon
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Grammatical Metaphor in SFL: A Rhetorical Resource for Academic Writing [PDF]
The focus of this paper is on grammatical metaphor as a rhetorical systemic resource for achieving lexical economy and information density in academic writing.
Ezenwa-Ohaeto, C, Ezeifeka, CR
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Thresholds: The metaphorical foundations of powerful knowledge
Abstract This paper advances a theoretical account of threshold concepts as metaphorical‐relational structures that reorganise meaning across contexts. Building on conceptual metaphor theory, we propose that threshold concepts can be understood as sites of schema‐level reorganisation: deep, embodied patterns of relational logic that scaffold abstract ...
Maria Karrol +1 more
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IDEATIONAL GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR IN STEVE JOBS 2005 COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS [PDF]
This thesis entitled Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Steve Jobs 2005 Commencement Address at Stanford University has two objectives. It aims at describing how ideational grammatical metaphor are employed in Steve Jobs 2005 Commencement Address at ...
JOHAN, MALENDRA COCCIANT
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Cultivating and embracing plurality in abductive inquiries within strategy research
Abstract Research Summary Abduction offers a mode of scientific inquiry that focuses on formulating explanations for unexplained phenomena. By building a bridge between philosophy of science and strategic management research, this article offers a pluralistic view of abduction, highlighting abductive triggers as the starting point in seeking ...
Prithwiraj Choudhury +2 more
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The Dual Meaning Potential of Prepositional Grammatical Metaphor in Prose Fiction [PDF]
From a Systemic Functional perspective, Grammatical Metaphor (GM) as is taken to be a chief driving force in the discourse of different genres, an important adult language machinery for ideational meanings to be semantically cross-mapped and realized ...
Yaser Hadidi
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Ideational Grammatical Metaphor and Transitivity in Trump’s Speeches: A Hallidayan Perspective
This research investigates the application of ideational grammatical metaphor (IGM) and transitivity patterns within Trump’s speeches, addresses, and interviews, spanning from his 2025 inaugural address to June 2025, utilizing Halliday’s Systemic ...
Kazemian, Bahram
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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