Author(s)

Ying Liu

Corresponding Author

Ying Liu

Abstract

In today’s economic globalization background, economic cooperation is getting closer and the role of English business contracts is essential. So it is necessary to identify the characteristics of English business contracts. There are a large number of grammatical metaphors in English business contracts. Nominalization is the main form of ideational grammatical metaphor. Based on Halliday's ideational grammatical metaphor, this paper analyzes nominalization in English business contracts, and points out that the application of ideational grammatical metaphor can better reflect the objective, formal, concise and authoritative stylistic features of business contracts.

Keywords

Ideational Grammatical Metaphor; Nominalization; English Business Contracts