Textual Metaphor from the Perspective of Relator

He, Qingshun; Yang, Bingjun; Wen, Binli

doi:10.1080/07268602.2015.1067134

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“…Among them are pseudo-cleft and cleft structures because they need a "double transitivity analysis, one of the original wording and the other of a more congruent rewording" (Thompson 1996:176). Specific adverbial and conjunction groups have also been suggested to count as textual metaphors (He et al 2015).…”

Section: Discourse Processing Factors Of the Passivementioning

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Translated Language or Edited Language? A Study of Passive Constructions in Translation Manuscripts and their Published Versions

Bisiada

2019

Across Languages and Cultures

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Can translated language really be analysed based on published texts, given the many agents that may influence the translator's work before publication? This article seeks to address this question through a parallel corpus study of English business articles, their German translation manuscripts and the published German translations. The objects of study are passive voice constructions. I analyse the frequency of instances where translators used the active voice to translate verbs that are in passive voice in the source text (and vice versa), and whether editors maintained that construction or intervened to change it again. The study finds that translators use the passive voice extensively to translate active voice constructions. Editors intervene often to change such constructions back to active voice. This suggests that translators mainly passivise while editors mainly activise constructions. As a possible motivation to passivise a construction or not, the tense used in the source text is shown to have a significant effect. The paper thus argues that there is a difference between what is actually the language of translation and what we find in published texts.

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Section: Discourse Processing Factors Of the Passivementioning

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Translated Language or Edited Language? A Study of Passive Constructions in Translation Manuscripts and their Published Versions

Bisiada

2019

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“…According to He et al. (2015) and He and Wen (2017), conjunctive adverbs have the potential to shift to paratactic conjunctions, creating grammatical metaphor. This type of grammatical metaphor shifts the cohesion domain to the logical domain, and hence is categorized as textual metaphor.…”

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“…ideational, interpersonal and textual) of systemic functional linguistics are closely intertwined, some systemicists (e.g., Martin 1992, 1993; Thompson 1996, 2014; Lassen 2003; He et al. 2015; He & Wen 2017) also proposed the existence of textual metaphor from different perspectives, i.e. the internal and external text organizations (Martin 1992), double transitivity (Thompson 1996, 2014), structural and non‐structural organizations of text (Lassen 2003), and double functionality (He et al.…”

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A Corpus‐based Study of Textual Metaphor in English Academic Writing

2021

Studia Linguistica

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This article conducted a corpus‐based study on the discipline distributions of two types of textual metaphor identified by He et al. (2015) and He and Wen (2017), conjunctionalization of conjunctive adverbs and zero conjunctionalization of hypotactic conjunctions. It is found that conjunctionalization of conjunctive adverbs is more prevalent in soft science texts than in hard science texts and zero conjunctionalization of hypotactic conjunctions is similarly distributed in hard science texts and in soft science texts. However, conjunctionalization of conjunctive adverbs is more prevalent in native English linguistics texts than in EFL Chinese linguistics texts while zero conjunctionalization of hypotactic conjunctions dominates in EFL Chinese linguistics texts because of the relatively lower frequency of hypotactic clause complexes in EFL Chinese linguistics texts. Textual metaphor functions to increase the grammatical intricacy of text and hence is not a characteristic feature of scientific writing. It is hereby concluded that EFL Chinese linguists do not write as technical texts as native English linguists.

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“…According to the principle of unidirectionality of transfer in grammatical metaphor and the criterion of double functionality for identifying grammatical metaphor, He et al (2015) identify five types of textual grammatical metaphor from the perspective of relator, i.e., zero conjunctive adverbial groups, conjunctionalization of conjunctive adverbial groups, prepositionalization of conjunctions, verbalization of conjunctions and nominalization of conjunctive verbal groups. See examples (3) to (5): (5) a.…”

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Reflections on the Grammatical Category of before, after and since Introducing Non-finite -ing Clauses: A Corpus Approach

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2016

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English language learners may be confused in identifying the grammatical category of such conjunctive expressions as before, after and since introducing non-finite -ing clauses. In this article, we will conduct a corpus-based investigation of hypotactic conjunctions and conjunctive prepositions following the principle of unidirectional transfer in grammatical metaphor proposed by He and Yang (2014) within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The research concludes that hypotactic conjunctions tend to transfer to zero conjunctions and before, after and since introducing non-finite -ing clauses should be included into the grammatical category of conjunctive prepositions.

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Textual Metaphor from the Perspective of Relator

Cited by 17 publications

References 11 publications

Translated Language or Edited Language? A Study of Passive Constructions in Translation Manuscripts and their Published Versions

Translated Language or Edited Language? A Study of Passive Constructions in Translation Manuscripts and their Published Versions

A Corpus‐based Study of Textual Metaphor in English Academic Writing

Reflections on the Grammatical Category of before, after and since Introducing Non-finite -ing Clauses: A Corpus Approach

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