Grammatical Metaphor in Chinese - Yang Yanning

Grammatical Metaphor in Chinese - Yang Yanning

The use of grammatical metaphor in written Chinese

Grammatical Metaphor in Chinese - Yang Yanning

Yang Yanning [+-]
East China Normal University
Professor, Director of Researh Center for Theoretical Linguisitics School of Foreign Languages East China Normal University

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Chapter 6 discusses the distribution and deployment of ideational GM in Chinese by analysing a corpus collected from scientific textbooks. Based on the categorization of GM in Chapter 5, this chapter explores how the various categories and subcategories of ideational GM and the GM syndromes in Chinese are distributed. The discussion in this chapter shows that the distribution of ideational GM instances in Chinese is not random, but rather it is motivated by the inherent features of the language. This chapter also investigates how the deployment of GM in Chinese is affected by the context of genre and language development. 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Language material and data collection 6.3 Data treatment 6.4 Results and interpretation 6.5 Summary

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Yanning, Yang. The use of grammatical metaphor in written Chinese. Grammatical Metaphor in Chinese. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 164-204 Feb 2015. ISBN 9781781791028. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=25806. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.25806. Feb 2015

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