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These detailed pathways are informed by quantitative patterns of frequency and variation, and qualitative patterns of metaphorical control, or the degrees of completeness and control over a reconstrual, and metaphorical enrichment, the degrees of technicality, formality and meanings committed to the metaphor (Liardét, 2013, 2014a). This close diachronic examination of learners’ use of experiential GM reveals salient patterns of deployment and maps detailed pathways of development.

This corpus-assisted, longitudinal study of Chinese learners’ exposition texts combines the delicate descriptions of Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) with the empirical resources of Corpus Linguistics, resulting in a detailed mapping of learners’ development informed through a multi-dimensional framework of GM analysis. This study maps 130 Chinese EFL learners’ development of academic literacy through a focused examination of grammatical metaphor (GM), the key linguistic resource for achieving the language valued in the academy (Christie, 2002a Christie & Derewianka, 2008 Halliday, 1994).

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