名词化隐喻在英语科技语篇中的元功能分析

名词化隐喻是语法隐喻的一种重要手段,也是英语书面语的主要特征之一。科技语篇作为一种正式的书面语体,其内部存在着大量的名词化。从系统功能语言学的三大元功能理论角度浅析了名词化隐喻在英语科技语篇中的作用,表明名词化隐喻能使英语科技语篇中的语言表达更加客观、简练,使之更具权威性,而且能够增强科技语篇的衔接与连贯。

Nominalization is one of the primary means of creating grammatical metaphor and one of the main features in the written language. English scientific discourse is one of the formal discourse and there are many phenomena of numinalization in it. This paper is intended to analyze three recta-functions of the nominalization in the English scientific discourse. It finds that nominalization can make the English scientific discourse objective, concise and authoritative and it is also helpful to achieve textual cohesion and coherence in the scientific discourse.