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1、Analysis of Grammatical metaphor in popular words AbstractThis paper studies the grammatical metaphor in popular words. From the popular words we know that any sentences or words are produced by grammatical metaphor. To start with, the thesis introduces the concept of grammatical metaphor, the conce
2、pt of metaphorical meaning, and the concept of congruent meaning. Then it shows that grammatical metaphor is a cognitive phenomenon through the popular word “雷”。By study the popular word “打酱油”，we find that grammatical metaphor is a kind of semantic generalization.Key words：grammatical metaphor; cogn
3、itive phenomenon; semantic generalization; popular wordsI. IntroductionThe thesis aims to make an analysis of grammatical metaphor in popular words, intending to find out how the popular words popularity exploit grammatical metaphor is a cognitive phenomenon. Through the analysis of grammatical meta
4、phor in popular words, the thesis also illustrates that one function of grammatical metaphor is a kind of semantic generalization. Then we find that grammatical metaphor is the expression of a meaning through a lexico-grammatical form that originally evolved to express a different kind of meaning. T
5、he expression of the meaning is metaphorical in relation to a different way of expressing the same meaning, which would be more congruent.II. Literature Review2.1 The Concept of grammatical metaphorGrammatical metaphor has a long history, which dated back as early as the classical Greek and Roman pe
6、riod in Europe and the Spring and Autumn Period in China in the sense that the naming of grammatical terminology was inspired by the metaphorisation of the real world. It was widely practiced in the medieval period by metaphorizing grammatical categories to mean phenomena in various domains in the r
7、eal world. (Hu Zhuanglin) After a silence of a thousand years or so, today grammatical metaphor plays a very important role in the linguistic. It means the possibility of re-setting the relationships between meanings and wordings, which is a central resource for expanding the meaning potential of la
8、nguage. Metaphor study also has a history of more than two thousand years. It can be traced back to Aristotle. The previous study can be roughly divided into two major parts: the classical views and the 20th centurys view. Aristotles interpretation of metaphor is a representative illustration of the
9、 classical views, in which metaphor is viewed as a device of poetic imagination and rhetorical flourish. The 20th centurys views are various and multi-dimensional, for researchers in very different academic fields have approached metaphor from their own perspectives and established a flood of metaph
10、or theories. However, it can be easily found that most of the previous metaphor study has been focused on the metaphorical expressions at the lexical level of language while those at the grammatical level have seldom been discussed.III. Analysis of Grammatical Metaphor in popular words3.1 Grammatica
11、l Metaphor is a cognitive phenomenon Grammatical metaphor Contemporary popular words-“Thunder”(雷)，in communication，is no longer simply meaning. Its meaning is beyond the scope of dictionary definitions, and appears new metaphorical meanings. In my opinion, it is because of the grammatical metaphor.
12、“Thunder” originally refers to a kind of natural phenomenon; its explanation is “cloud make a power voice during discharge electricity” in Modern Chinese Dictionary. “Thunder” usually makes people fear; due to this point its metaphorical meaning is something fun and awful. But before 2005 no one kno
13、ws this meaning. We say that this meaning is metaphorical meaning of “Thunder”. But from 2006, more and more people know this meaning. So we say that this meaning is the congruent meaning of “Thunder”. In the following figure we can see that from 2006 more and more people know this meaning. The time
14、 from 2005 till now is a process people accept the metaphorical meaning. It is a cognitive phenomenon.3.2 Grammatical Metaphor is a kind of semantic generalizationHalliday said that the potential for decoupling and recombination is a basic design feature of human language. The possibility of re-sett
15、ing the relationships between meanings and wordings, which is a central resource for expanding the meaning potential of language, is grammatical metaphor. Because of this, grammatical metaphor can expend the meaning of words, but it not simply expends the meaning, its the semantic transfer and ambig
16、uity. Semantic generalization refers to that words keep less and less original semantic features and constantly produce new use. In this case, grammatical metaphor is a kind of semantic generalization. Take the popular word-“打酱油” for example: its original meaning is IV. Conclusion This paper analyze grammatical metaphor in popu
