Towards a system of principles for identifying nominalizing metaphors

IF 1.1 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Wen Li , Bingjun Yang
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Abstract

In systemic functional linguistics, nominalization represents a prominent type of grammatical metaphor, but the identification of nominalization as nominalizing metaphor remains a problem. To distinguish nominalizations which are metaphorical from those which are not in English, texts from FLOB (Freiburg-LOB Corpus of British English) were observed by using UAM Corpus Tool. The results show that some of the nominalizations (e.g., technicalized nominalizations, event nouns, participant nominalizations, and nominal non-finite and finite clauses) are not grammatical metaphors under the principles of Rank Shift, Full Realization, or Semantic Junction. Non-morphological nominalizations in grammatical metaphor (e.g., the realization of a relator as a noun exemplified by if → condition) also remain unexplained, which may be solved by the Morphological Priority Principle prioritizing morphological agnation between the congruent and metaphorical wordings. None of the principles alone but a system synthesized from the four principles can sufficiently do for the identification of nominalizing metaphors.
建立一套识别名词化隐喻的原则体系
在系统功能语言学中,名词化是一种突出的语法隐喻类型,但如何将名词化确定为名词化隐喻仍是一个问题。为了区分英语中隐喻和非隐喻的名词化,我们使用 UAM 语料库工具观察了 FLOB(弗莱堡-LOB 英国英语语料库)中的文本。结果表明,根据等级转换、完全实现或语义交界原则,一些名词化(如技术化名词化、事件名词化、参与者名词化、名词化的非定语从句和定语从句)不属于语法隐喻。语法隐喻中的非形态名词化(如 if → condition 所体现的关系词作为名词的实现)也仍然无法解释,这可以通过形态优先原则(Morphological Priority Principle)来解决,该原则优先考虑同义词和隐喻词之间的形态搭配。这些原则中的任何一条都不能单独用于识别名词化隐喻,只有由四条原则综合而成的系统才能充分地识别名词化隐喻。
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Lingua
Lingua Multiple-
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2.50
自引率
9.10%
发文量
93
审稿时长
24 weeks
期刊介绍: Lingua publishes papers of any length, if justified, as well as review articles surveying developments in the various fields of linguistics, and occasional discussions. A considerable number of pages in each issue are devoted to critical book reviews. Lingua also publishes Lingua Franca articles consisting of provocative exchanges expressing strong opinions on central topics in linguistics; The Decade In articles which are educational articles offering the nonspecialist linguist an overview of a given area of study; and Taking up the Gauntlet special issues composed of a set number of papers examining one set of data and exploring whose theory offers the most insight with a minimal set of assumptions and a maximum of arguments.
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