Grammatical Metaphor in Scientifi c Publications on COVID-19: a Source for the Development of Modern English

Published: 06/30/2021

Keywords: grammatical metaphor; compound nouns; development of English; scientiﬁc English; nominalized forms; COVID-19

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Kochetova M.G. Grammatical Metaphor in Scientifi c Publications on COVID-19: a Source for the Development of Modern English. // Moscow University Bulletin. Series 19. Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 2021. Issue 2. 117-125

Kochetova M.G. (Lomonosov Moscow State University)

Abstract

The article describes the role of grammar in the development of new terms and meanings in the English language. As applied to scientiﬁc texts in most recognized journals published in 2020, scientiﬁc English is shown to diﬀer from General English in that it contains grammatical metaphor that adds weight and authority to the message and functions as a tool for generating new terms and meanings. The article discusses the deﬁnition of grammatical metaphor, its place in a sentence and reasons for its use. Grammatically metaphorical discourse with altered word order sounds clear, concise and meaningful. With changes in life and new developments in science due to the pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) there appear new lexical forms in scientiﬁc publications that are grammatically metaphorical. As new terms, they get via mass media into General English opening up new horizons in its development.

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