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IJLLL 2025 Vol.11(2): 72-78
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2025.11.2.576

On the Features of Register and Their Functions in Constructing Chinese Textual Metaphor

Ya Bai
School of Foreign Languages, Henan University of Economics and Law, Henan Province, China
Email: carfieldbai@163.com (Y.B.)

Manuscript received September 17, 2024; revised November 5, 2024; accepted December 21, 2024; published March 27, 2025.

Abstract—Based on Chinese rhetorical tradition and in combination with Systemic-Functional Linguistics, this discussion focuses on the features of register and their functions in constructing Chinese textual metaphor. Registers exert varied effects on metaphoric text by means of some of their most representative features including registral co-occurrence restrictions, violation, and tautology. In Chinese, there are cases in which one metaphor can work across contexts or some related metaphors can map reciprocally when one register occurs in multicontexts, except for one-to-one relationship between a register and its context; on the contrary, the same register in one context can hold double function that might lead to the more probable production of one literal or metaphorical representation and the other metaphorical connotation.

Keywords—register, textual metaphor, Chinese text

Cite: Ya Bai, "On the Features of Register and Their Functions in Constructing Chinese Textual Metaphor," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 72-78, 2025.

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