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Deployment Of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor In English Academic Discourse, Yang Lian, Bahram Kazemian Mr.
Deployment Of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor In English Academic Discourse, Yang Lian, Bahram Kazemian Mr.
Bahram Kazemian
In the past three decades, the scholars both abroad and in China have done a lot of studies on grammatical metaphor from different perspectives. However, the deployment of grammatical metaphor in English academic discourse did not catch so much of scholars' attention. Besides, most of the studies on grammatical metaphor have been done in qualitative analysis, which leads to inadequate research in quantitative analysis. Therefore, the present study aims to fill the research gap of empirically grounded studies on grammatical metaphor in English academic discourse by making an exploration on its actual realization and distribution. The present study is based …