Constructional Approach to Interpersonal Metaphor of Modality

Hu Jian is an associate professor of linguistics at Beihang University. She holds a doctor’s degree in English. Her ongoing area of research includes systemic functional linguistics and cognitive linguistics, with particular interest in interaction among semantics, lexicogrammar, and discourse functions. She is the author of a monograph on metaphors of modality and a series of journal articles on grammatical metaphor and functional studies of languages. She had worked as a researcher at Department of Cognitive Science, Case Western Reserve University, USA.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Grammatical Metaphor and Metaphors of Modality.- Chapter 3. A new proposal for modelling metaphors of modality as constructions.- Chapter 4. The semantics of Modal Metaphors.- Chapter 5. The lexico grammatical forms of MM.- Chapter 6. The functional accounts of MM.- Chapter 7. Conclusions.