Analysis of Literary and Scientific Genres in Azerbaijani Turkish Based on Halliday’s Grammatical Metaphor

Authors

    Masoumeh Pournazim Sis PhD student in Linguistics, Department of English, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran
    Masoud Zoghi * Associate Professor of English Language Teaching, Department of English, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran masoud.zoghi@iau.ac.ir
    Nader Assadi Assistant Professor of English Language Teaching, Department of English, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran

Keywords:

Grammatical , Metaphor, Ideational , Nominalization, Transitivity

Abstract

One of the key concepts in Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar is grammatical metaphor. Halliday introduced three types of grammatical metaphor: ideational, interpersonal, and textual. In this regard, the objective of this study is to examine the extent and manner of the application of different types of grammatical metaphor in literary and scientific texts in Azerbaijani Turkish from an ideational perspective. To achieve this goal, and for the analysis of the scientific genre, the book Dil ve Dilçilik by Ali Dashqin was selected, while for the literary genre, selected articles from the journal Ana Varlıq were analyzed. The results indicate that no significant difference was observed in the frequency of ideational grammatical metaphor between the two genres. Additionally, the analysis of components demonstrated no significant difference in the frequency of nominalization and transitivity grammatical metaphors between scientific and literary genres. Based on these findings, it can be concluded that grammatical metaphors equally contribute to the enrichment and clarity of concept presentation in both scientific and literary texts in Azerbaijani Turkish. Therefore, the present study, by providing sufficient evidence from both texts, aims to introduce grammatical metaphor as a criterion for examining and understanding scientific and literary texts.

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Author Biographies

  • Masoumeh Pournazim Sis, PhD student in Linguistics, Department of English, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran

    One of the concepts raised in Halliday’s systematic functional grammar is grammatical metaphor. Halliday introduced and distinguished three types of grammatical metaphors including ideational, interpersonal, and textual. The aim of this research is to investigate the amount and function of using grammatical metaphors in literary and scientific texts from the ideational aspect in Azeri language. For this purpose and to analyze the scientific genre, a book titled "Dil and Dilchilik" written by Ali Dashghin and for the literary genre the selected articles from the magazine "Ana Varligh" were selected and analyzed as samples and corpus of the study. The obtained results indicated that there was no significant difference between the use of ideational grammatical metaphor in both scientific and literary genres. In addition, the results of the analysis of the components showed that there was no significant difference between the use of nominalization and transitivity in scientific and literary genres. According to the obtained results, it can be concluded that the use of grammatical metaphors can be valuable in enriching and clarifying the presentation of concepts in scientific and literary texts of the Azeri language. Therefore, the current research, by providing sufficient evidence from two kinds of texts, tries to introduce grammatical metaphor as an indicator for examining and understanding scientific and literary texts.

  • Masoud Zoghi, Associate Professor of English Language Teaching, Department of English, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran

    One of the concepts raised in Halliday’s systematic functional grammar is grammatical metaphor. Halliday introduced and distinguished three types of grammatical metaphors including ideational, interpersonal, and textual. The aim of this research is to investigate the amount and function of using grammatical metaphors in literary and scientific texts from the ideational aspect in Azeri language. For this purpose and to analyze the scientific genre, a book titled "Dil and Dilchilik" written by Ali Dashghin and for the literary genre the selected articles from the magazine "Ana Varligh" were selected and analyzed as samples and corpus of the study. The obtained results indicated that there was no significant difference between the use of ideational grammatical metaphor in both scientific and literary genres. In addition, the results of the analysis of the components showed that there was no significant difference between the use of nominalization and transitivity in scientific and literary genres. According to the obtained results, it can be concluded that the use of grammatical metaphors can be valuable in enriching and clarifying the presentation of concepts in scientific and literary texts of the Azeri language. Therefore, the current research, by providing sufficient evidence from two kinds of texts, tries to introduce grammatical metaphor as an indicator for examining and understanding scientific and literary texts.

  • Nader Assadi, Assistant Professor of English Language Teaching, Department of English, Ahar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahar, Iran

    One of the concepts raised in Halliday’s systematic functional grammar is grammatical metaphor. Halliday introduced and distinguished three types of grammatical metaphors including ideational, interpersonal, and textual. The aim of this research is to investigate the amount and function of using grammatical metaphors in literary and scientific texts from the ideational aspect in Azeri language. For this purpose and to analyze the scientific genre, a book titled "Dil and Dilchilik" written by Ali Dashghin and for the literary genre the selected articles from the magazine "Ana Varligh" were selected and analyzed as samples and corpus of the study. The obtained results indicated that there was no significant difference between the use of ideational grammatical metaphor in both scientific and literary genres. In addition, the results of the analysis of the components showed that there was no significant difference between the use of nominalization and transitivity in scientific and literary genres. According to the obtained results, it can be concluded that the use of grammatical metaphors can be valuable in enriching and clarifying the presentation of concepts in scientific and literary texts of the Azeri language. Therefore, the current research, by providing sufficient evidence from two kinds of texts, tries to introduce grammatical metaphor as an indicator for examining and understanding scientific and literary texts.

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Published

2024-10-01

Submitted

2024-08-21

Revised

2024-09-09

Accepted

2024-09-22

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 3 (2024): Serial Number 5

Section

مقالات

How to Cite

Pournazim Sis, M., Zoghi, M., & Assadi, N. . (2024). Analysis of Literary and Scientific Genres in Azerbaijani Turkish Based on Halliday’s Grammatical Metaphor. Treasury of Persian Language and Literature, 2(3), 18-30. https://jtpll.com/index.php/jtpll/article/view/59

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