Publications

Publication details [#32038]

Laval, Virginie. 2003. Idiom comprehension and metapragmatic knowledge in French children. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (5) : 723–739.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | context | idiom, comprehension of | metapragmatic awareness

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines the role of contextual characteristics and of the linguistic convention -the arbitrary link between literal and non-literal meaning - in children's comprehension of idiomatic expressions.