Halliday Model of Grammatical Metaphor

Abstract

I mention in the previous chapter that people have different understandings of “grammar” and “metaphor”, resulting in at least five types of grammatical metaphor. Of these five types, the first is that some grammatical terms are metaphors of the real world, and the second is the use of grammatical terms to metaphorize medieval social life, whose function is mainly rhetorical, and the other three are considered to have the real linguistic meanings, that is structuralism approaches, systemic functional linguistic approaches, and American functionalism approaches.