A Study on Grammatical Metaphor of Korean Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics

Abstract Widely studied in fields like education, psychology, and linguistics, readability can be defined as (a) reader’s understanding of a reading text, (b) features of a text, or (c) the matching of a text to its reader. The existing research has been focused on the formulaic and multilevel discourse approaches, relatively neglecting others such as systemic functional linguistics oriented one. Moreover, contemporary reading materials pose as a challenge for average children in many ways. This study examines readability and adaptation of children’s literary works from the perspective of ideational grammatical metaphor inspired by systemic functional linguistics. Through case studies of metaphorical transferences involving zero, one, two, and three ideational grammatical metaphors used in the parallel excerpts in the original version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its eight adapted ones published in China, it is concluded that addition, maintenance, revision, unpacking, and demetaphorization are five major strategies which are found to decrease, maintain, or increase readability of some parts in the adapted versions.

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Interpersonal meaning

Functions of Language ◽

10.1075/fol.17018.mar ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 2-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

J. R. Martin

Keyword(s):

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Special Issue ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Grammatical Metaphor

Abstract This introduction comprises four main sections. Section 1 introduces the overall theoretical architecture of Systemic Functional Linguistics (hereafter SFL) by way of contextualising the focus on interpersonal grammar in this special issue. Section 2 looks in more detail at the interpersonal discourse semantics underlying this work, briefly introducing the systems of negotiation and appraisal realised through interpersonal grammar. Section 3 turns to the concept of grammatical metaphor, a concept which bears critically on the realisation relationship between interpersonal discourse semantics and lexicogrammar in SFL. Section 4 comments on the challenge of intradisciplinary dialogue.

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Ideational Grammatical Metaphors in Doctrinal Verses of The Bible in Indonesian Version

Theory and Practice in Language Studies ◽

10.17507/tpls.0710.04 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (10) ◽

pp. 847 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Erikson Saragih ◽

Syahron Lubis ◽

Amrin Saragih ◽

Roswita Silalahi, M.Hum

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Conceptual Design ◽

High Frequency ◽

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

The Bible ◽

Grammatical Metaphor ◽

Data Source ◽

Analysis Design

Grammatical Metaphor (GM) has become an interesting linguistic issue nowadays especially in the texts of science of technology. Even, the discussion of Grammatical Metaphors has touched other fields’ texts; politics, economics, and even religion. The study aims at: 1) describing deployment of experiential GMs in doctrinal verses of the Bible in Indonesian version, 2) describing deployment of logical GMs in doctrinal verses of the Bible in Indonesian version. To reach up the objectives of the research, the writer employs a qualitative study with content analysis design. The source of data is 50 doctrinal verses Alkitab Terjemahan Baru 1974 in 2014 edition. The theory underlying this research is Systemic Functional Linguistics. To identify and categorize grammatical metaphors from the data source, the researcher employs the Stratal Model proposed by Halliday and Martin (2015), while the data were analyzed by Content Analysis with Conceptual design proposed by Carley and Dale (2012). The findings show that 1) 69 experiential GMs from 8 types are well deployed in doctrinal verses while 5 types are not identified in Indonesian language. 2) 51 logical GMs from 3 types are well deployed in biblical doctrinal verses in Indonesian language. Due to the high frequency of ideational GMs the texts have the features of objectivity, impersonality, technicality and practicality.

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Reflections on the Grammatical Category of before, after and since Introducing Non-finite -ing Clauses: A Corpus Approach

English Language Teaching ◽

10.5539/elt.v9n10p111 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 9 (10) ◽

pp. 111

Author(s):

Qingshun He

Keyword(s):

English Language Learners ◽

Language Learners ◽

English Language ◽

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Grammatical Category ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Grammatical Metaphor ◽

Unidirectional Transfer

English language learners may be confused in identifying the grammatical category of such conjunctive expressions as before, after and since introducing non-finite -ing clauses. In this article, we will conduct a corpus-based investigation of hypotactic conjunctions and conjunctive prepositions following the principle of unidirectional transfer in grammatical metaphor proposed by He and Yang (2014) within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The research concludes that hypotactic conjunctions tend to transfer to zero conjunctions and before, after and since introducing non-finite -ing clauses should be included into the grammatical category of conjunctive prepositions.

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A.-M. Simon-Vandenbergen, Miriam Taverniers, and Louise Ravelli. Grammatical Metaphor: Views from Systemic Functional Linguistics

Journal of Literary Semantics ◽

10.1515/jlse.2004.33.2.197 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 33 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Denis E. B. Pollard

Keyword(s):

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Grammatical Metaphor

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Nominalization in Applied Linguistics and Medicine: The Case of Textbook Introductions and Book Reviews

Research in Language ◽

10.2478/rela-2018-0018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 281-302

Author(s):

Alireza Jalilifar ◽

Seyedeh Elham Elhambakhsh ◽

Peter R. White

Keyword(s):

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Applied Linguistics ◽

Scientific Information ◽

Chi Square ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Grammatical Metaphor ◽

Chi Square Test

Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics, this study explored variational use of nominalization in 600 textbook introductions and 200 book reviews in applied linguistics and medicine. The nominalized expressions were identified in the texts, the frequencies of the nominalization types were counted, and eventually a chi-square test was administered. Analysis of nominalization patterns across the different informational/promotional moves revealed divergent patterns in the two disciplines but insignificant differences across the genres in focus. The density of nominalizations was acknowledged in the applied linguistics introductions and book reviews. However, functional variations in the use of nominalizations were found only in the introductions. As for the proportion of nominalization to grammatical metaphor, results demonstrated a lower tendency towards nominalizing scientific information in the medicine corpus. Further research is needed to see how nominalization is exploited in other genres and other disciplines.

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Grammatical Metaphor in English-Chinese Translation

International Journal of Translation Interpretation and Applied Linguistics ◽

10.4018/ijtial.20210101.oa2 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 15-29

Author(s):

Xianzhu Si ◽

Jing Wang

Keyword(s):

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Translation Studies ◽

Functional Equivalence ◽

Source Text ◽

Chinese Translation ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Grammatical Metaphor ◽

Textual Meaning ◽

Grammatical Structures

This paper aims to apply grammatical metaphor (GM) in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) into translation studies. From the concept of functional equivalence in terms of ideational meaning, interpersonal meaning, and textual meaning required of target text (TT) relative to source text (ST) proposed by SFL, it is necessary for the translators to manipulate respectively on the transitivity system, mood system, modality system, and theme system that embody ideational meaning, interpersonal meaning, and textual meaning. Since the same meaning can be expressed in different grammatical structures, the translators, in this process, are faced with a variety of grammatical forms, among which congruent form and metaphorical form are included. To attain the goal of translation prescribed above, the translator has to choose an accurate and appropriate structure. The article then discusses the necessity and effects of GM's application into English to Chinese translation to ensure the quality of the works translated.

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The Relationship between Grammatical Metaphor and Translation from Chinese to English: An Empirical Study Based on a Personal Experience Narrative Text

International Journal of English Linguistics ◽

10.5539/ijel.v6n1p171 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 171

Author(s):

Jiangping Zhou

Keyword(s):

Empirical Study ◽

Personal Experience ◽

Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽

Narrative Text ◽

Narrative Texts ◽

Proficiency Levels ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Grammatical Metaphor ◽

The Relationship

Grammatical metaphor is one of the important theories in Systemic-Functional Linguistics. Through an empirical study, this paper analyzes the correlation between grammatical metaphor and its sub-categories and the translating quality of personal experience narrative texts from Chinese to English, and the findings show that grammatical metaphor, especially ideational metaphor, and translating quality are significantly positively correlated. Through analyzing the differences of grammatical metaphor and its sub-categories used by learners of English from different proficiency levels, and the findings show that grammatical metaphor and its sub-categories are significantly different except textual metaphor.

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