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- Title
Metaphor and Its Textual Functions.
- Authors
Xiaojing Yin
- Abstract
Metaphor is, in essence, mapping from the target domain to the source domain; from the familiar and concrete to the unfamiliar and abstract. When this happens, the entailments of metaphors as well as the contextual information will be integrated into texts and hence form coherent texts. Thus, it is accessible for us to explore discourse cohesion and coherence from the point view of conceptual metaphor. The present study is directed toward a comprehensive interpretation of how metaphors perform functions in the creation of discourse coherence and points out that metaphor is also a key mechanism for textuality. We finally come to the conclusion that conceptual metaphors facilitate discourse organization.
- Subjects
METAPHOR; ENTAILMENT (Logic); COHESION (Linguistics); INTERPRETATION (Philosophy); DISCOURSE
- Publication
Journal of Language Teaching & Research, 2013, Vol 4, Issue 5, p1117
- ISSN
1798-4769
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4304/jltr.4.5.1117-1125