Thanks Chris
This diagram is a good illustration of the grammatico-semantic model, with a
semantic ‘figure’ realised by a grammatical clause and a semantic ‘participant’
by a grammatical nominal group. It must then explain grammatical metaphor by
stratifying the semantic stratum into two ‘domains’, with the diagram showing a
more abstract ‘Value’ realised by a less abstract ‘Token’.
In the discourse semantic model, stratification is between the strata of DS and
LG. So a semantic figure may be realised ‘congruently’ by a clause, or
metaphorically by a nominal group. This paper proposes the term ‘symbolising’
for the latter metaphorical type of relation between DS and LG.
David
Martin, J. R. (2020). Metaphors we feel by: stratal tension. Journal of World
Languages, 6(1-2), 8-26.
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Subject: [sys-func] Grammatical Metaphor
Dear Colleagues,
The following might be useful for those who are unclear on the semantics of
grammatical metaphor.
Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 288-9):
The metaphorical relation is thus similar to inter-stratal realisation in that
it construes a token-value type of relation. Here, however, the relation is
intra-stratal: the identity holds between different meanings, not between
meanings and wordings. The metaphor consists in relating different semantic
domains of experience: the domain of figures is construed in terms of the
domain of participants, and so on… . It is the fact that metaphor multiplies
meanings within the semantic system that opens up the possibility of
metaphorical chains, with one congruent starting-point and another highly
metaphorical end-point (A"' stands for A" stands for A' stands for A; e.g.
'engine failure' stands for 'the failing of an engine' stands for 'an engine
failed'). The semantic system is being expanded along the dimension of the
metaphorical token-value relation; but the expansion is still within the
semantic system itself.
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