An Application of Systemic and Functional Linguistics to the Teaching of English Transferred Epithet

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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.209How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL); transferred epithet; transferred word; grammatical metaphor introduction

Abstract

In view of the problems existing in the teaching of English transferred epithet, the relevant theories of systemic functional linguistics are introduced to explain them. The paper clarifies the difference between transferred epithet and personification resorting on the thought of linguistic hierarchy, expands the scope of traditional transferred epithet, and points out that transferred epithet has not only ideational function but also interpersonal function according to linguistic functions. Meanwhile, referring to the theory of grammatical metaphor, the paraphrase of epithet transferred is to recover its congruent form in nature.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Gangni Chen
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TI  - An Application of Systemic and Functional Linguistics to the Teaching of English Transferred Epithet
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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