Publications

Publication details [#50211]

Danesi, Marcel. 1995. Learning and teaching languages: the role of "conceptual fluency". International Journal of Applied Linguistics 5 (1) : 3–20.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conceptual representation | foreign language teaching | language proficiency | metaphor | second language acquisition

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This paper argues that the notion of "conceptual fluency" can be employed to design a language teaching curriculum around the thesis that metaphor constitutes the organizing principle of ordinary discourse.