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Publication details [#27092]

Charteris-Black, Jonathan. 2002. Second language figurative proficieny: A comparative study of Malay and English. Applied Linguistics 23 (1) : 104–133.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosslinguistic perspective | figurative speech | language proficiency | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English | Malay

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This study suggests that identification of similarities and differences in the conceptual basis and linguistic form of Malay (L1) and English (L2) figurative expressions, enables to anticipate potential problems in second language figurative performance.