This paper studies its functions,such as formality,objectivity,economy,precision and cohesion realized by nominalizing metaphor in a discourse.

The functions such as economy, formality,precision,objectivity,authority and cohesion realized by nominalizing metaphor in a discourse are studied.

Reflection and Functions of Nominalization in English for Agricultural Science & Technology

The paper probed into the utilization of nominalization in maritime text,the characteristics,the functions and the application of which being discussed with a number of examples.

This paper aims at an analysis of English nursery rhymes within the frame of the theory of language acquisition and Halliday s functional grammar and proves that there isn t nominalization in the discourse of children aging from zero totwelve.

Through analyzing metaphors in several political speeches,the writer gets the conclusion that NP metaphors are used with the highest frequency,and finds out tha.

The authors carry on statistical analysis to the metaphor noun phrase which consists of "A /N + (‘de’) + ‘Ocean’ " on the basis of ultra-large-scale corpus and use the Word Synonymous Treasure as a supplement to the classification system to carry out the basic terms of the semantic classification for collocation words of "Ocean".

On the basis of Wisniewski s "alignable difference",Pustejovsky s "qualia structure",Lakoff s "conceptual metaphor",Kovecses s "conceptual metonymy" and Goossens s "metaphtonymy",the paper focuses on metaphtonymic noun-noun compounds in Chinese and English to account for their internal semantic structures.