Investigating the Role of Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor in Scientific and Literary Texts of Azeri Turkish: A Comparative Study Based on Halliday’s Framework

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Masoumeh Pournazmi Sis ¹ , Masoud Zoghi ² , Nader Asadi ³

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Received: 2025-05-07 Accepted : 2025-07-31 Published : 2025-08-25

Keywords: Grammatical Metaphor, Interpersonal Metaphor, Mood, Modality,

Abstract :

Language, as the main tool of human communication, has diverse structures and features that play an important role in the transmission of meaning and social interactions. One of the important approaches in language analysis is functional grammar or systemic functional grammar, which examines how language functions in different situations. In this framework, grammatical metaphor is considered as one of the key concepts that can play an important role in shaping and representing meanings in different texts. Halliday introduced and distinguished three types of grammatical metaphors, including ideational, interpersonal, and textual metaphors. In this study, the extent and way of using grammatical metaphors in literary and scientific texts in the Azeri language from an interpersonal perspective was investigated. For this purpose, the analytical-descriptive research method was used. In this study, for the scientific genre, the book "Dil and Dilchilik" by Ali Dashkin and for the literary genre, selected articles from the magazine "Anna Varlig" were selected as the data and analyzed. The results showed that there was no significant difference in the use of interpersonal grammatical metaphors in the two genres of science and literature. Furthermore, the examination of the components indicated a significant difference in the use of grammatical metaphors of mode and modality between the two genres; so that modality was used significantly more in science texts than in literary texts, and mode was used more in literary texts than in science texts.  

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