A STUDY ON GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR IN ENGLISH BUSINESS LETTERS

... on metaphorical variation 2.5 Classification of Grammatical Metaphor Halliday makes a distinction between two main types of grammatical metaphor: There are two main types of grammatical metaphor. .. to as congruent (or nonmetaphorical) and incongruent (or metaphorical) Grammatical metaphor can be classified into ideational and interpersonal metaphor The latter can be further classified into... lexicogrammatical selection, or 29 ‘wording’; and that metaphorical variation is lexicogrammatical rather than simply lexical In other words, lexical metaphor is just one aspect of grammatical metaphor