Ideational Metaphors in there-be Construction: A New SFG Transitivity Paradigm Perspective
(0) This paper examines the linguistic metaphors realized in the English there-be construction from the perspective of a new Systemic Functional Transitivity Model proposed by Peng (manuscript; the new SFG model for short). It firstly introduces the new SFG model and the surface construction characteristics of there-be phenomena. Then within the new SFG model, it defines the congruent and the metaphorical uses of there-be construction. Based on the British National Corpus (BNC for short) and a small corpus set for the present study, the paper describes and explains these metaphorical phenomena in the sense of Lakoff & Johnsons (2003 1980) mapping and Fauconnier & Turners (2002) conception of blending. It has been found that the existential process in Hallidays model is a grammatical construction in the new SFG model, which typically construes the Material-Relational process, particularly the Circumstantial Relational type. It may be used to construe other processes and sub-processes, including the Intensive and Possessive within the Material-Relational domain, the Material-Operational, the Mental-Operational and the Mental-Relational processes.
ideational metaphor grammatical construction transitivity
Tongwen CHAI
Center for Functional Linguistics, Beijing Normal University School of Foreign Studies, University of Science and Technology Beijing
国际会议
The 36th International Systemic Functional Congress(第36届国际系统功能语言学大会暨第十一届全国功能语言学研讨会ISFC36)
北京
英文
11-16
2009-07-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）