NOMINALISATION AS GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR

A CorpusBased Study of Mixed Metaphor
As a Metalinguistic Comment
Elena Semino
Lancaster University (UK)
e.seminolancaster.ac.uk
The notion of “mixed metaphor” is traditionally associated with the prescriptive injunction that,
whatever it is, it must be avoided. Metaphor scholars have attempted to d[r]

Using data from a variety of languages such as Blackfoot, Halkomelem,
and Upper Austrian German, this book explores a range of grammatical
categories and constructions, including tense, aspect, subjunctive, case, and
demonstratives.
It presents a new theory of grammatical categories – the Universal[r]

Morphemes consist of bases and affixes, each of which have meaning. Words can be made up of just a base, or a base plus one or more affixes. Morphemes are divided into derivational morphemes and inflectional morphemes. 
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What is grammar?Grammar drived from Greek “grammatike” meaning “to write”Kinds of grammar:Prescriptive grammar: to be phrased as prohibition standard grammarDescriptive grammar: to describe the grammatical system of a language (e.g to describehow to play football: using a ball, hand and a basket...[r]

linguistics proposed by Jackendoff (1983), and not by models consisting only of well-formedness conditions nor certainly by single factor orsimple models. Language learning results, the theory will claim, fromthe interaction and integration of a large number of factors and notfrom any single factor.[r]

As we know, many students in Viet Nam cannot use English in communication after leaving high schools or universities, which is a big problem for our education system. The authorities really concern about teaching and learning English in Viet Nam, so they motivate the National Foreign Languages 2020[r]

We do not read words, one by one. Meaning is contained not so much in individual words as in collections of words conveying broader or more specific ideas. Readers thus make sense of a sentence by breaking it into meaningful chunks and examining their interrelationships. Skillful writers focus not s[r]

HE STATES THAT “ GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR AFFECTS BOTH THE IDEATIONAL AND TEXTUAL STRUCTURE OF THE CLAUSE SINCE IT IS A TOOL FOR ORGANIZING TEXT” MARTIN IN HALLIDAY & MARTIN 1993: 41 HE BEL[r]

TRANG 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY OF STUDY PROJECT REPORT………...I ABSTRACT………..II ACKNOWLEDGE………..III LIST OF INTONATION SYMBOLS………IV PART I: INTRODUCTION………1 I.. Ratio[r]

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TABLE 7: METAPHOR USE IN STOCK MARKET REPORTS: VIETNAMESE _CORPUS SIZE: APPROXIMATELY 7000 WORDS_ CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR 1 N0 OF OCCURRENCES PERCENTAGES CONCEPTUAL METAPHOR 2 N0 OF OCCURREN[r]

In every language there are descriptive lexical elements, such as evening and
whisper, as well as grammatical elements, such as the and ing. The distinction
between these two elements has proven useful in a number of domains,
but what is covered by the terms ‘lexical’ and ‘grammatical’, and the basi[r]

It is undeniable that there are numerous reasons for the growing popularity of metaphors in business and economics, not only in linguistic world. However, the previous researches is just conducted to have a general view about metaphor using in economics so there has been little research on metaphori[r]

critics, historians, statesmen, scientists, professors. In Chapter 11, "TheAppositive," for example, the authors quoted include James Agee, Neil A.Armstrong, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Ruth Benedict, Joan Bennett,Truman Capote, John Dickson Carr, Noam Chomsky, Francis Christensen,Winston Churchill,[r]

Metaphor is one of the key elements greatly contributing to the variety and beauty of literary works, particularly in poetry and stories. There, however, are few research papers or studies focusing much on the significance of metaphor along with its types used in these literary works. Although numer[r]

Các lỗi căn bản mà người học tiếng Anh thường mắc phải
Trong quá trình học tiếng Anh, chúng ta thường mắc phải rất nhiều lỗi. Tuy nhiên các bạn cũng nên nhớ rằng, như bao ngôn ngữ khác, việc học tiếng Anh cũng rất thú vị, và mắc lỗi cũng là một phần trong quá trình học.

TYPES OF COHESION TRANG 18 TABLE 2.1: TYPES OF COHESION AT LINGUISTIC LEVEL LINGUISTIC LEVEL AT WHICH “PHORIC” RELATION IS ESTABLISHED TYPE OF COHESION Semantic Grammatical Lexicogrammat[r]