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This paper focusses on the concept of ‘grammatical metaphor’ as it is conceived of in the framework of systemic functional linguistics. After an illustration of major sub-types of grammatical metaphor, the concept is explained in relation to lexical metaphor, using onomasiological and semasiological perspectives as two complementary viewpoints on metaphorical meaning in general.
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Taverniers, M. Grammatical Metaphor and Lexical Metaphor: Different Perspectives on Semantic Variation. Neophilologus 90, 321–332 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-005-0531-y
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