Grammatical Metaphor

Views from systemic functional linguistics

Editors

Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | University of Gent

Miriam Taverniers | University of Gent

Louise J. Ravelli | University of New South Wales

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Since the 1980s, metaphor has received much attention in linguistics in general. Within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) the area of 'grammatical metaphor' has become increasingly more important. This volume aims to raise and debate problematic issues in the study of lexico-grammatical metaphor, and to foreground the potential of further study in the field. There is a need to highlight the SFL perspective on metaphor; other traditions focus on lexical aspects, and from cognitive perspectives, while SFL focuses on the grammatical dimension, and socio-functional aspects in the explanation of this phenomenon.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 236] 2003. vi, 453 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 24 October 2011

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.236

Table of Contents

Preface

J.R. Martin | pp. 1–3

Grammatical metaphor in SFL: A historiography of the introduction and initial study of the concept

Miriam Taverniers | pp. 5–33

Part I. Grammatical metaphor: Clarification and application

Renewal of connection: Intergrating theory and practice in an understanding of grammatical metaphor

Louise J. Ravelli | pp. 37–64

Nominalization as grammatical metaphor: On the need for a radically systemic and metafunctional approach

Liesbet Heyvaert | pp. 65–99

Ambiguity in grammatical metaphor: One more reason why the distinction transitive/ergative pays off

Jorge Arús-Hita | pp. 101–126

The evolution of grammatical metaphor in scientific writing

David Banks | pp. 127–147

Part II. Development of metaphor in children

The use of a metaphorical mode of meaning in early language development

Clare Painter | pp. 151–167

The emergence of grammatical metaphor: Literacy-oriented expressions in the everyday speech of young children

Jane Torr and Alyson Simpson | pp. 169–183

Grammatical metaphor in the transition to adolescence

Beverly Derewianka | pp. 185–219

Part III. Interpersonal metaphor: Enactment and positioning

Lexical metaphor and interpersonal meaning

Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen | pp. 223–255

The elided participant: Presenting an uncommonsense view of the researcher’s role

Geoff Thompson | pp. 257–278

Imperative readings of grammatical metaphor: A study of congruency in the imperative

Inger Lassen | pp. 279–308

Part IV. ‘Metaphor’ in grammar and in other modes of meaning

Phonological metaphor

Robert Veltman | pp. 311–335

Intersemiosis in mathematics and science: Grammatical metaphor and semiotic metaphor

Kay O’Halloran | pp. 337–365

Part V. Metaphor in metalinguistic perspectives

The conduit metaphor and the analysis of meaning: Peircean semiotics, cognitive grammar and systemic functional grammar

Patrick Goethals | pp. 369–389

Grammatical metaphor as a cognitive construct

Randal Holme | pp. 391–415

‘Having things both ways’: Grammatical metaphor in a systemic-functional model of language

Robin Melrose | pp. 417–442

Subject Index | pp. 443–453

“[T]he book presents a fascinating picture of the position of grammatical metaphor in SFG, both in theoretical as well as in empirical and sometimes even applied terms.”

Gerard Steen, Free University of Amsterdam, in Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 17:3 (2006)

“[A] thought-provoking volume”

Kay Wikberg, University of Oslo, Norway, in European Journal of English Studies, Vol. 9:1 (April 2005)

“There is plenty here to interest even those less than fully versed in SFL.”

Denis E.B. Pollard, University of Cardiff, in Journal of Literary Semantics Vol. 33:2 (2004)

“[A] valuable contribution to the advance of the research in grammatical metaphor and a comprehensive overview of the field.”

Asunción Villamil, Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Las Rozas, Madrid, Spain, in SKY, Journal of Linguistics, Vol. 18 (2005)

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Subjects

Linguistics

Functional linguistics

Germanic linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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