The grammatical metaphor theory is an important part of Halliday's functional grammar. With the introduction of it, it has attracted more and more researchers' attention, and its research has continued to deepen. This article uses the content analysis method, taking the journal articles published in CSSCI with grammatical metaphor as the key words as the research object, to analyse the number of publications、keywords、research purposes、disciplinary distribution of these articles quantitatively and qualitatively. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the research hotspots and development trends of grammatical metaphor in order to provide reference for the application and development of grammatical metaphor research.