ARGUMENTATIVE PATTERNS IN ACADEMIC DISCOURSES OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY: THE ROLE OF GRAMMATICAL METAPHOR

Abstract

This article examines the rol of grammatical metaphor in argumentative patterns of sociology and anthropology academic writing. This analysis is done from the theoretical and methodological perspectives of systemic functional linguistics, in particular some ideational and textual resources.

The analysis reveals that grammatical metaphor (experiential and logic) builds a specialized language in the disciplines through taxonomies and information packaging. In their explanations, writersutilize language resources for building abstraction and generalization that tend to couple ideational and interpersonal meanings, generating a semantic density and heteroglossic orientation.