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On EST Texts From the Perspective of Grammatical Metaphor
WANG Feng-yan, MENG Fan-mao
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DOI:10.17265/1539-8080/2017.03.001
Linyi University, Linyi, China
The role of the grammatical metaphor theory to systemic-functional linguistics (SFL) as well as to metaphor studies has been generally acknowledged. Halliday proposed the notion of grammatical metaphor syndrome (GMS) and classified grammatical metaphor (GM) into 13 types. Experiential metaphor, a subcategory of GM, especially nominalization, is a very common phenomenon in EST (English for science and technology) texts. Halliday and Martin claim that in EST texts what is called GM is primarily nominalization. It is of great value to explore these GMs for us to have a better understanding and command of the features of EST texts and in turn a better study and understanding of the nature of language of science and technology, language at large, and ultimately a more solid prediction of the trend of language development and even the law of human cognitive development.
systemic-functional grammar, grammatical metaphor, grammatical metaphor syndrome
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