Foreshadowing Misunderstandings Of Grammatical Metaphor

Martin & Rose (2007: 74):

The final section 3.6 discusses what happens when lexical meanings are expressed by atypical wordings, such as realising a process as a noun instead of a verb ('nominalisation'). This is known as grammatical metaphor, and a method is described for unpacking grammatical metaphors to help analyse activity sequences.

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To be clear, grammatical metaphor is not an experiential discourse semantic system.

[1] The notion of grammatical metaphor involving "lexical meanings" betrays a misunderstanding, as will be demonstrated in future posts. To be clear, grammatical metaphor is not lexical, by definition.

[2] The notion of grammatical metaphor involving an "atypical" relation between strata betrays a misunderstanding, as will be demonstrated in future posts.  To be clear, the relation is incongruent, whether typical or atypical (which depends on instantiation probabilities, which vary for register).

[3] The characterisation of grammatical metaphor as a relation between function (process) and form (verb, noun) betrays a misunderstanding, as will be demonstrated in future posts.

[4] As the three misunderstandings above suggest, the promised method for unpacking grammatical metaphor is inconsistent with theory, as will be demonstrated in future posts.