A Study of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Health Texts of English Newspapers

Fatemeh Tabrizi; Nesa Nabifar

Volume 1, Issue 2 , September 2013, , Pages 109-126

https://doi.org/10.22049/jalda.2013.13529

Abstract
  Systemic functional grammar constructs a grammar for the purpose of text analysis to investigate how grammar is used as a means of making meaning. Grammatical metaphor is one of the language phenomena introduced by Halliday (2004) in the framework of functional grammar. The present work focuses on the ...  Read More

A Comparative Study of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Scientific and Political Texts

Biook Behnam; Bahram Kazemian

Volume 1, Issue 1 , March 2013, , Pages 40-70

https://doi.org/10.22049/jalda.2013.8150

Abstract
  Language, science and politics go together and learning these genres is to learn a language created for codifying, extending and transmitting scientific and political knowledge. Grammatical metaphor is divided into two broad areas: ideational and interpersonal.This paper focuses on the first type i.e. ...  Read More