Can we profit from a loss and still expect substantial gains? Grammatical metaphors as discourse builders and translational choices in English and Croatian discourse of economics

Can we profit from a loss and still expect substantial gains? Grammatical metaphors as discourse builders and translational choices in English and Croatian discourse of economics

The present paper starts from proposed points of synergy between Halliday’s (1998) grammatical metaphors and conceptual metaphors as proposed in Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Ritchie & Zhu, 2015) and concentrates on the nature and function of lexical choices in expert texts on economics in English...

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Main Authors: Milić Goran, Erdeljić Dubravka Vidaković
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2019-10-01
Series:ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)
Subjects:
grammatical metaphor
conceptual metaphor
economics
translation strategies
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2020-0004

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