There is a lack of universally acknowledged criteria for the concept of textual metaphor in the realm of grammatical metaphor. Based on previous research on textual metaphor, this paper proposes a distinction betweentextual grammatical metaphorandtexture metaphor. The former occurs within the grammatical unit of clause(complex) and is realized by changes in lexical-grammatical structures, while the latter takes place in the discourse-semantic stratum of the language system and is brought about by nonstructu...