摘  要

在现代社会，人们的日常生活与经济的发展紧密的联系着，因此经济类新闻在人们的生活中变得密不可分。当前，国内外已经有许多关于隐喻方面的研究，并取得了丰硕的成果，这些研究为本文探讨语法隐喻在英语经济类新闻语篇中的应用奠定了基础。本文以韩礼德系统功能语法理论中的语法隐喻为理论框架，从《经济学人》、《纽约时报》以及《美国之音》三大权威英语经济杂志和广播节目中各选取10篇2014年的英语经济类新闻语篇，运用定量和定性相结合的方法研究语法隐喻在英语经济类新闻语篇中的应用，揭示了语法隐喻的特征及其在语篇背后隐藏的真正意图。

关键词：英语经济新闻；系统功能语法；语法隐喻

Abstract

In modern society, people’s daily lives are closely connected with the development of economy. That is why economic news reports have become an indispensable part in everyone’s life. In the past, a great many of researches on metaphor in linguistic areas have been made in both China and other counties, which are served as theoretical basis for the study of grammatical metaphor in English economic news discourse. This dissertation is written based on the theory of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) on grammatical metaphor. There are totally 30 pieces of economic news discourse chosen from The Economists, New York Times and Voice of America (ten from each) which are three of the most authoritative English economic news magazines and broadcasts. The author employs both quantitative and qualitative method to study the application of grammatical metaphor in English economic news discourse. The thesis reveals the characteristics of grammatical metaphor and the real intention hidden in these news discourses.

Key words: English economic news discourse; Systemic Functional Grammar; Grammatical grammar