语法隐喻迁移的应用研究

Grammatical Metaphor Transferring and Its Application

基于Halliday系统功能语言学理论,探讨语法隐喻在二语习得中的个体发展规律。首先将取自不同受试组的60篇文章中的句子归类,再对比其中的语法隐喻出现的频率,然后利用独立样本T检验来验证二语写作中语法隐喻使用量是否随着语言水平的提高而增加,以此验证母语的隐喻思维是否会无条件地迁移过来。研究结果表明,学生在英语写作中人际隐喻的使用量随语言水平的提高而增加,但研究数据没能证明概念隐喻及语篇隐喻的发展也遵循这一规律。

This paper aims to study the individual development of grammatical metaphor in the second language acquisition from the perspective of Halliday’s systemic functional linguistic theory. We first classified all sentences in each of the 60 compositions collected, and then compared the frequency of various grammatical metaphors by independent samples T test to examine the correlations between learners’ language levels and their ability to use grammatical metaphors. It found that the total usage of interpersonal metaphor increases with the improvement of one’s language level. However, the data cannot prove the development of ideational and textual metaphors also follows this principle.