Abstract
The discussion of ideational grammatical metaphor has been attracted the attention of many researchers because of its usefulness and effectiveness in packaging information. With the device, meaning expressed in one pattern of the grammar can be reconstructed in another pattern of the grammar. This study focuses on the sequence type of ideational grammatical metaphor, which is then termed the sequence of ideational grammatical metaphor. In this kind of metaphor, the realization of meaning in clause complex is packed into a single clause through some wording techniques. The main objective of the present study is to analyze the application of techniques and their functions in historical text. By using the main framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) proposed by Halliday and Matthiessen (2004), it is concluded that two main techniques, with expansion and with projection, are used to construe two different features of information in historical text. Both expansion and projection wording technique pack the realization of features in clause complex into a single metaphorical clause.
Highlights
Feature of information in historical text is constructed in a certain way
Biber and Conrad (2009) argue that in construing meaning, the causeeffect relationship are commonly constructed in clause complex with cause-effect construction while the arguments and statements of historical characters are commonly constructed in clause complex with verb+that-clause construction
The focus of this study is the sequence of ideational grammatical metaphor wording techniques used in historical text, along with their functions
Summary
Feature of information in historical text is constructed in a certain way. The text documents the two features of information; logical events of cause-effect relationship and logical events of the argument and statement of historical characters. Biber and Conrad (2009) argue that in construing meaning, the causeeffect relationship are commonly constructed in clause complex with cause-effect construction while the arguments and statements of historical characters are commonly constructed in clause complex with verb+that-clause construction. The two features of information are constructed in a simple clause rather than in clause complex for certain purposes. When they are realized in a simple clause, the construction would be basically the result of meaning and structure reconstruction from the clause complex. The group rank may serve as semantic functions such as participant, process, and circumstance
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