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Language development in the transition from childhood to adolescence: the role of grammatical metaphor ...
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Language development in later childhood is often characterised in terms of increasing complexity. While other linguistic theories might describe such complexity either in structural terms or in semantic terms, it is proposed in this thesis that a systemic model might explain developing complexity in terms of the relationship between the grammar and the semantics. The thesis argues that around adolescence, there is a qualitative change in this relationship, whereby in addition to the system expanding in terms of greater delicacy, there is a compounding of the system - meanings are realised not by new additions to the system but by deploying in new ways lexicogrammatical resources already in the system which have developed to realise other meanings. There is no longer a 'simplex' (congruent) relationship between the semantics and the lexicogrammar, but a 'complex' relationship, whereby in the metaphorical1 lexicogrammatical choice, there are (at least) two meanings immanent. Whereas the transition to the ...
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URL: https://figshare.mq.edu.au/articles/thesis/Language_development_in_the_transition_from_childhood_to_adolescence_the_role_of_grammatical_metaphor/19440512/1 https://dx.doi.org/10.25949/19440512.v1
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