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Description
This study investigates the use of grammatical metaphor of transitivity (GM-T) in English and Vietnamese financial discourse from a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective, in interaction with conceptual metaphor theory (CMT). The corpus comprises English and Vietnamese textbooks currently used in financial and banking education. With the assistance of corpus-analysis softwares such as Python and UAM CorpusTool, the study analyses the types, structures, and functions of GM-T, highlights cross-linguistic similarities and differences, and explores the co-occurrence and interplay between GM-T and conceptual metaphor (CM). Findings reveal that GM-T plays a critical role in constructing formal, objective, and condensed specialised texts. English tends to show a higher density of nominalisation than Vietnamese, although both languages use GM-T to enhance abstraction and cohesion. Implications for translation studies and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) teaching are discussed.
Biography
Nguyen Hong Oanh is an English lecturer at Ho Chi Minh University of Banking and a PhD candidate in Linguistics at Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam. With nearly two decades of teaching experience since 2008, her research focuses on English linguistics, contrastive analysis, and language teaching methodology.
