Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50357#.VDssDVfHRK0 Author(s) Canzhong Jiang Affiliation(s) College of International Studies, Southwest University, Chongqing, China . ABSTRACT As an important concept in Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), grammatical metaphor can be categorized into ideational metaphor, interpersonal metaphor, arguably logical metaphor and textual metaphor on the basis of metafunctions. Ever since its initiation, grammatical metaphor, ideational metaphor in particular, has captured extensive attention from scholars throughout the world and various aspects including its categorization, motivation, realization, meaning and so on have been investigated. Howev...
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