名词化隐喻在商务英语信函中的语篇交际功能分析

摘要

Business English letters belong to one important discourse variety of business English styles. In order to achieve their communicative purposes, nominalization is often applied purposefully in them. This article starts with a brief introduction of the study of nominalization in systemic-functional linguistics and the semantic features of nominalization, and then focuses on the analysis of the discourse communicative functions of nominalization in business English letters.%商务英语信函作为商务英语的一种重要语篇文体形式，为了实现其交际目的，常有意识地使用名词化语法隐喻结构。本文首先扼要介绍系统功能语言学理论下的名词化隐喻研究及名词化隐喻的语义特征，然后重点分析名词化隐喻在商务英语信函中的语篇交际功能。