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Grammatical MetaphorViews from systemic functional linguistics
2003. vi, 453 pp.
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978 90 272 4748 3 / EUR 130.00 978 1 58811 368 9 / USD 195.00
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.
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“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 Sementics Vol. 33:2 (2004)
“[...] a thought-provoking volume [...]”
“[...] a valuable contribution to the advance of the research in grammatical metaphor and a comprehensive overview of the field.”
“[...] the 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.”
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Linguistics