The usage of grammatical metaphor in the stories of Persian book for third grade of elementary school and Iraqi book for third grade of elementary school

Grammatical metaphor is marked as one of the outstanding issues in the systematic grammar function. Creating a new semantic system with the usage of new functions is claimed as one of the most attractive facilities that the language may provide. In addition to creating attractive expressions, it expands the semantic values of the text. With that in mind, these types of figures of speech and their analyses lead to a better identification of the text in textual studies. Considering the fact that such grammatical metaphors are exquisitely used in the Persian book for third grade of elementary School, this article explores this figure of speech by describing and analyzing it in the stories of Persian books and the Iraqi book for third grade of elementary school. The research expresses the concept of grammatical metaphor on the sample of children’s story. One of the major consequences of using grammatical metaphor of nominalization type is the coherence and magnification of the text. More precisely, nominalization hides the identity of the text doer and provokes the readers` thinking.