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Reconstruing Experience Through Language

Author: HuangZhiQin
Tutor: DingJianXin
School: Sun Yat-sen University
Course: English Language and Literature
Keywords: Historical discourse Conceptual Metaphor Transitivity metaphor Verbalization Nominalization
CLC: H0
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2010
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Abstract

This article aims to systemic functional grammar perspective in the discourse of the modern history of the concept of metaphor. Historical discourse since the Greek era, they attracted the attention of many scholars. Different scholars from various angles of the rhetoric, literary analysis, genre, linguistics explore the characteristics of historical discourse and expression of historical discourse of past experience to multiple interpretations. Grammatical metaphor a conceptual metaphor showed many of the same significance to express potential build an important expression of the experience of the world in the process, state and things. It fully reflects the vitality of the language and experience the tension build. Historical discourse as a language of experience building product, no doubt the concept of metaphor stage expression. Therefore, starting from a functional point of view to inspect the characteristics and significance of the characteristics of modern historical discourse syntax of conceptual metaphor, in order to reveal the role and significance of conceptual metaphor built on historical experience. In this paper, the manifestation of the concept of metaphor corpus collected for qualitative analysis. Corpus from two describes the modern history of Chinese Modern and Contemporary History of writings were Fairbank \The conceptual metaphor transitivity metaphors, verbs and nouns text analysis, languages ??role to explore grammatical metaphor to build on the experience of historical events, the historical experience logical meaning organizations as well as the historical experience reproduce. The analysis shows that the effective application of conceptual metaphor to reconstruct the historical experience of the world, to show a different semantic picture. The transitivity metaphor selection and use flexibility to reshape the dynamic or static effects of the events of the past, the role of its participants, process and environmental components conversion reflects the vitality of the syntax refactoring experience and contains a different meaning and ideology. Verbalization of logical semantic relationships effectively logical relationship between the otherwise abstract events and things and actions, and not only brought wealth to the vitality of the performance to the description of experience, but also past experience to get a reasonable logic processing, and given the historical experience to continue moving forward dynamic. In addition, the statements of historical experience verbalization can contain more than one realization of the logical relationship has become an important element of the historical discourse meaning to achieve. Nominalization as to embody the the grammatical metaphor most powerful way to realize the significance of the modern historical discourse plays a key role. Noun transition by the nature of the process, the environment, and the relationship between semantic elements, a stable and objective historical experience of the object can be constructed and presented. Nouns is an important foundation of the transitivity metaphors and verbs can be achieved, the three integration, common to reproduce the history of a past era. However, the process of conceptual metaphor is inevitable information \Thus, the concept of metaphor and experience interpret the significance of the historical discourse brings a positive role while also implied risk \The same historical facts due to the use of conceptual metaphor convey different meanings and different historical experiences for people shaping process. Power and ideology will permeate through the conceptual metaphor to build into the historical discourse symbol. Grammatical features and semantic features in the discourse of the modern history of the concept of metaphor exploratory analysis revealed the power of language refactoring experience, proposed the possibility of interpretation of the reading of history and historical experience. This is not just examine the language itself, but also through the analysis of language to explore the performance and the significance of the historical discourse reconstruction of past experience, want to be able to promote the positive attention of readers statements of historical discourse, thinking and interpretation.

Reconstruing Experience Through Language

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