There are many body metaphorical nouns in English and Chinese,and some of them have developed into locatives in the process of grammaticalization.

A Cultural Approach to English and Chinese Body Metaphor;

Based on Lakoff and Johnson s theories on metaphor,this paper investigates the similarities and differences between English and Chinese body metaphors from the cognitive perspective and explores the causes from both cognitive and cultural aspects.

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.