Acquiring metaphorical expressions in a second language : performance by Chinese learners of English / Chris Mengying Xia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mengying Xia, Chris, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor--Study and teaching.

Metaphor.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Phraseology--Study and teaching.

Phraseology.

Figures of speech.

Idioms.

Second language acquisition--Study and teaching.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

ix, 219 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Contents:

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Metaphorical expressions: A historical review

3. Metaphorical expressions under cross-linguistic influence

4. Processing metaphorical expressions by native speakers and learners

5. Placing metaphorical expressions in a bilingual mental lexicon

6. Methodologies in second language metaphor research

7. Two experiments on the acquisition of metaphorical expressions

8. Acquiring and teaching metaphorical expressions in a second language

Bibliography

Appendix 1: Instruction and sentences used in the acceptability judgment task

Appendix 2: Instruction, sentences and questions used in the self-paced reading task

Appendix 3: Lexical property scores for the critical lexical items

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Mengying Xia, Chris, author. Acquiring metaphorical expressions in a second language

ISBN:

9781350071797

135007179X

OCLC:

1080430083