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Title Grammatical metaphor : views from systemic functional linguistics / edited by Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen, Miriam Taverniers, Louise Ravelli
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 453 pages) : illustrations
Series Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, 0304-0763 ; v. 236
Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 236. 0304-0763
Contents pt. 1. Grammatical metaphor : clarification and application -- pt. 2. Development of metaphor in children -- pt. 3. Interpersonal metaphor : enactment and positioning -- pt. 4. 'Metaphor' in grammar and in other modes of meaning -- pt. 5. Metaphor in metalinguistic perspectives
Summary 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 o
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Metaphor.
Systemic grammar.
Language acquisition.
Metaphor
Language Development
metaphor.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Language acquisition
Metaphor
Systemic grammar
Grammatiktheorie
Bedeutungserlernung
Metalinguistik
Metapher
Metaforen.
Form Electronic book
Author Simon-Vandenbergen, A. M
Taverniers, Miriam
Ravelli, Louise
LC no. 2003062592
ISBN 9789027275318
9027275319
9781588113689
158811368X
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9781283312127
9786613312129
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