Acquiring Metaphorical Expressions In A Second Language: Performance By Chinese Learners Of English - 9781350071797

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.

• | Author: Chris Mengying Xia
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Aug 08, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 135007179X
• | ISBN-13: 9781350071797