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Publication details [#56697]

Lai, Huei-ling and Yi-chen Chen. 2012. EFL learners’ awareness of metonymy–metaphor continuum in figurative expressions. Language Awareness 21 (3) : 235–248.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

figurative speech | foreign language acquisition | language awareness | metaphor | metonymy

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study argues that it may be advantageous to combine ideas of conceptual metonymy and metaphor to raise Taiwanese EFL learners' awareness of abstract yet general concepts associated with figurative expressions.