Applying the Theory of Grammatical Metaphor to Two English Short Stories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21864414 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Baidaa Abbas Ghubin AL-Zubaidy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Issue | 143 |
| Pages | 1-10 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Al-Adab Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1994-473X • E-ISSN: 2706-9931 |
| Publisher | University of Baghdad - College of Arts (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.31973/aj.v2i143.3765 |
| OpenAlex | W4311180846 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper identifies and describes the textual densities of ideational metaphors through the application of GM theory One aim is to get at textually verifiable statistical evidence that attests to the observed dominance of GM nominalization in academic and scientific texts, rather than to fiction (e.g. Another aim is to explore any significant differentiation in GM"s us by the two shortstory writers. The research has been carried out by identifying, describing, and statistically analysing the frequencies of ideational GM structures in both fiction texts to get at their comparative textual densities in terms of wordcounts. The obtained results have shown that GM structuresthough used in both the American and British short storiesare statistically quite infrequent in both texts, accounting for a tiny (0.0064%) of the total textwording in T1. against (0.0137%) for T2. Such very low rates of frequency (well below the threshold of even 1% of each text volume) corroborates the previously observed dominance of GM nominalization in academic and scientific texts, rather than in fiction. These same low densities of use does not allow drawing significant inference differentials in GM"s use by the two writers
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Metaphor · Nominalization · Noun · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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