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Cocoons of Desire and Thought: Metaphor as Metafunction
- Author(s):
- Brian G Caraher, Brian Gregory Caraher (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, LSL General Linguistics, TM Language Theory, TM Literary and Cultural Theory, TM Literary Criticism
- Subject(s):
- Aesthetics, English language, English literature
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- 11th Annual International Congress for English Grammar (ICEG)
- Conf. Org.:
- ICEG & host universities in Coimbatore and Hyderabad, India
- Tag(s):
- Epistemology
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6XG6M
- Abstract:
- This conference paper was an invited plenary lecture for the 11th annual meeting of ICEG in January 2014. It builds upon numerous articles, essays and books the author has published on the grammar, epistemology and socio-historical aspects of metaphor and metaphorical discourse. This paper provides a model for understanding metaphor as a needed metafunction within the context of a critical re-examination of Hallidayan Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG). It employs examples from Aristotle to E M Forster.
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- xml
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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