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Research on Metaphors of Mood in English Economic Speeches

Author: XuHui
Tutor: ShiShunLiang
School: Lanzhou University of Technology
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Metaphors of Mood Systemic Functional Grammar The English economic speech discourse
CLC: H315
Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2011
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Abstract

Since Aristotle proposed the metaphor of the concept of metaphor research has been the concern of rhetoricians , philosophers and linguists since the 1990s , many Chinese and foreign scholars have made ??varying degrees of Metaphors of Mood Halliday introduced the metaphor to the syntax of the field , the concept of grammatical metaphor , pointed out that the tone of the speech function reflects consistent and metaphors , this concept has been proposed attracted domestic and foreign scholars in particular the system function linguists wide attention and discussion . With the accelerated pace of globalization in the world economy class lecture more and more the attention of linguists , especially its metaphor , Hedges and more and more , as well as researchers conduct criticism of economic discourse discourse analysis, interpret , speech Discourse on the economy of the metaphor , scholars pay more attention to its conceptual metaphor analysis from the tone of metaphor, it's not much , tone metaphor research focuses on political speech discourse and Discourse advertising . This article attempts to from a more micro perspective , according to Halliday system function syntax tone metaphor of the theoretical framework , intended to English economic speech Discourse six tone metaphors expand research : declarative expression Imperative and doubt ; pray so that sentences express representations and doubt ; interrogative expression statements and the imperative six metaphors of Mood on the tone of the metaphor of the three functions : courtesy , to discuss sexual and text coherence, and further confirmed the systemic functional grammar able to provide a multi-level discourse analysis , multi-functional theoretical framework to reveal the the English speech Discourse tone metaphor select rationale , to show how language form and function combine to achieve different communicative purposes , this is conducive to people to deepen understanding and perception of economic speech Text , which can be more effectively improve their language to understand , use , and interpersonal skills .

Research on Metaphors of Mood in English Economic Speeches

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