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Ideational Grammatical Metaphors. Applications in Selected Registers

Name: Ideational Grammatical Metaphors. Applications in Selected Registers
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Author: Gabriele Grenkowski
ISBN: 978-3-668-17859-5

Term Paper (Advanced seminar), 2015

19 Pages, Grade: 2,3

Gabriele Grenkowski (Author)

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1 Introduction

2 Systemic Functional Linguistics
2.1 Grammatical Metaphor
2.1.1 Types of Grammatical Metaphors
2.1.1.1 Ideational Grammatical Metaphors
2.1.1.2 Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphors
2.2 Halliday’s Transitivity System
2.3 Nominalization

3 Uses of Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Certain Registers
3.1 Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Scientific Texts
3.1.1 Objectivity
3.1.2 Condensation
3.1.3 Higher information density/lexical density
3.1.4 Technicality and Rationality
3.1.5 Examples
3.2 Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Political Speech
3.2.1 The speeches of George W. Bush
3.2.2 The speeches of Barrack Obama
3.2.3 Functions of IGM in Political Texts

4 Summary and Conclusion

5 Sources

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Title: Ideational Grammatical Metaphors. Applications in Selected Registers
College: RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Romanistik)
Course: Hauptseminar "Metaphor in cognitive and systemic-functional frameworks"
Grade: 2,3
Author: Gabriele Grenkowski (Author)
Year: 2015
Pages: 19
Catalog Number: V318657
ISBN (eBook): 9783668178588
ISBN (Book): 9783668178595
File size: 553 KB
Language: English
Keywords: ideational, grammatical, metaphors, applications, selected, registers

Quote paper: Gabriele Grenkowski (Author), 2015, Ideational Grammatical Metaphors. Applications in Selected Registers, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/318657

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