Introduction Figurative comparisons consisting of two nouns (a target and a base) can be expressed in two grammatical forms, i.e., in simile form (X is like Y), or in metaphor form (X is Y). Recently, many studies have shown that there are substantial differences between metaphors and similes. In particular, much evidence has been found for people’s grammatical preference for figurative compari...

We investigate the effectiveness of semantic generalizations/classifications for capturing the regularities of the behavior of verbs in terms of their metaphoricity. Starting from orthographic word unigrams, we experiment with various ways of defining semantic classes for verbs (grammatical, resource-based, distributional) and measure the effectiveness of these classes for classifying all verbs...

The problem of iconicity has been a recurring theme in linguistic inquiry into the nature of the linguistic sign. The property of iconicity includes not only the narrow category of sound symbolism, but also the broad categories of isomorphism and metaphor. This paper surveys recent research, and offers a classification of diagrammatic and metaphorical iconicity in language. Problems of structur...

This paper deals with the concept of grammatical subjecthood, and focuses on different perspectives from which this grammatical function has been defined and described in a number of linguistic schools. Properties that have been assigned to the Subject function are grouped into four dimensions (i.e. predication, mood, voice/diathesis, and theme), and it is argued that each of these Subject dime...

Among the linguistic resources for creating grammatical metaphor, nominalization rewords   processes and properties metaphorically as nouns within the experiential metafunction of language. Following Halliday's (1998a) classification of grammatical metaphor, the current study investigated nominalization exploited in an English applied linguistics textbook and its corresponding Persian translati...

This article aims to investigate grammatical metaphor representation in news item text of Jakarta Post. research was conducted by applying a descriptive design. The data were taken from Post entitled “BREAKING: 189 people on downed Lion Air flight, ministry says.” published October 29, 2018 sites. then analyzed coding the lexical as congruent and incongruent ones. From Post, finding is Represen...