چکیده:
Scientific language, along with media and political discourse, hasreceived adequate and ample attention in research on GrammaticalMetaphor (GM) as it is a chief driving force in the discourse of thosegenres; Modern Prose Fiction (MPF) however has seen spotty andsketchy research at best. This study, thus, aims to bring out how GM isdeployed in (MPF), as opposed to such a deployment in the language ofscience. Drawing mostly upon the conceptualization of GM byThompson (2004) and Halliday & Matthiessen (1999, 2004), the studyshifts the spotlight onto Harry Potter series, which is most representativeof MPF discoursally and generically. The works placed under analysisfor scientific discourse, selected based on clear and clarified criteria, areequally representative. This study is in a qualitative exploratory mould;it receives, in that spirit, three phases of compensatory sweepinganalysis. The findings uncover six categories of GM in MPF and pointto the category of Prepositional and Generic GM as the mainstays,underpinning all GM in the genre. The heart of the differentialdeployment of GM in MPF is found to lie in Semogenesis, the semioticpowerhouse of evolutionary meaning-making in language. The findingspromise to broaden the understanding of GM and encourage undertakinganalysis of GM in other prose genres, especially under-researched ones.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"We did not locate all occurrences of GM in the scientific text and the frequency, since – building upon previous research and our own analysis – the language of science mostly deploys a type of GM whose macro- IJAL, Vol. 11, No. 2, September 2008 61 semantic, discoursal and generic motivations are understood.
Now the point here is, given a semogenic perspective shadowed and influenced by scientific discourse, whenever the author intends to mean this sentence – if, supposedly, she were at an earlier stage of ontogenesis, phylogenesis, and logogenesis – she would have otherwise come up with a semantics of the clause and then worded her lexicogrammar that would have been along these lines: - Harry started running instantly and ahead, he heard hooves speeding up.
Table 1 Some Interesting Generic GMs, of the second type Instances of Instances of Instances of GM Instances Instances of GM using halt as GM with shoot of GM GM with take give with let out 52 (give a 31 (come to a 12 (he kept 14 (let out a 16 (he took no hug, a halt, skid to a shooting shriek, a notice of shudder, a halt, screech suspicious looks scream, a Harry, she turn, a lurch, to a halt, at him, he shot her muffled cry, took offense a short bow, sway to a a look of etc) (she was a false sigh, a halt, canter to resentment) offended), etc) warning look, a halt, etc) etc) GM in Thought and Speech Presentation There is an interesting type of GM deployed in MPF which turns out to be typical of ‘modern’ prose-fiction genres rather than 19th and 18th century ones."