A corpus-based study of grammatical post-metaphorical expressions

In Systemic Functional Linguistics, meanings in semantic stratum could be realized by congruent/premetaphorical, metaphorical, or demetaphorical/post-metaphorical expressions in lexico-grammatical stratum. This paper, evidenced from the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), explores the spec...

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Main Authors: Zhou Jiangping, Gao Yanmei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2021-10-01
Series:Journal of World Languages
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2020-0018