A pragmatics perspective of metaphors of modality and its objectification tendency

There are two major types: metaphors of mood and metaphors of modality.

Halliday s metaphors of modality show a tendency of objectification of the subjective propositions,which reveals the implication that "we only say we are certain when we are not".

Grammatical metaphor·Modality metaphor·Stylistic function

This paper admits that modality metaphor, different from congruent modality, can realize complicated meaning potential, and it is just for this reason that the construction process of modality metaphor is quite complicated.

It is concluded that modal uses of tense fall into the category of the interpersonal metafunction metaphor,and that they are a realization of modality metaphor,and that when used in certain clause patterns,they are a.

Interpersonal grammatical metaphor,including metaphor of mood and metaphor of modality,is one of the realizations of grammatical metaphor in systemic functional grammar.

The paper explains the concept of metaphor of mood and metaphor of modality,and then discusses the functions of interpersonal grammatical metaphor in social communications and its special values in discourse analysis.

The present thesis elaborates on the use and functions of ideational metaphor,metaphor of mood and metaphor of modality in different kinds of advertisements with the framework of grammatical metaphor in functional linguistics as theoretical basis.

When meeting with this kind of problems, first find out the dominant or recessive inheritance acoording to the pedigree; then further judge whether it is caused by euchromosome inheritance or sex -linkage inheritance.