allow a reader/listener to experience less tangible processes as more concrete things.37 The second motivation for the use of ideational metaphor concerns its implications for the textual metafunction. Here, two points can be made. First, when a process is realized metaphorically as a thing, it can then be treated textually as a participant in the discourse similar to other things/entities.38 Second, ideational metaphor provides the language user with a resource to modify processes in such a way