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Publication details [#25761]

Goatly, Andrew. 1996. Green grammar and grammatical metaphor, or Language and the myth of power, or Metaphors we die by. Journal of Pragmatics 25 (4) : 537–560.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

metaphor | nominalization | ordinary language | transitivity

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Suggesting ways in which grammatical resources can more adequately represent the world as demanded by (modern scientific) ecological theory, this paper especially argues against Halliday and Martin who in this respect propose to abandon nominalization or grammatical metaphor.