Acquiring Metaphorical Expressions in a Second Language
eBook - PDF

Acquiring Metaphorical Expressions in a Second Language

Performance by Chinese Learners of English

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Acquiring Metaphorical Expressions in a Second Language

Performance by Chinese Learners of English

About this book

Conventional metaphorical expressions are widely used by native speakers in everyday language and have received extensive attention in theoretical semantics and cognitive linguistics. However, how a second language learner can acquire those expressions is left largely unknown. Researchers and language learners face the question: if one has acquired the literal meaning of a word, can they automatically derive the metaphorical meaning? This book provides the answer by placing the question of acquisition of metaphorical expressions in the framework of bilingual lexicon. Assessing whether metaphorical expressions are taken for granted by second language learners, it explores how the metaphorical meaning(s) of a word should be connected in a learner's mental lexicon, and how the cross-linguistic availability of a metaphorical expression could affect the outcome of acquisition of that expression. The book also provides a detailed comparison between metaphorical expressions and other figurative language from both the theoretical and experimental perspectives.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Content
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1. Introduction
  9. 2. Metaphorical expressions: A historical review
  10. 3. Metaphorical expressions under cross-linguistic infl uence
  11. 4. Processing metaphorical expressions by native speakers and learners
  12. 5. Placing metaphorical expressions in a bilingual mental lexicon
  13. 6. Methodologies in second language metaphor research
  14. 7. Two experiments on the acquisition of metaphorical expressions
  15. 8. Acquiring and teaching metaphorical expressions in a second language
  16. Appendix 1: Instruction and sentences used in the acceptability judgement task
  17. Appendix 2: Instruction, sentences and questions used in the self-paced reading task
  18. Appendix 3: Lexical property scores for the critical lexical items
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index