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Publication details [#59138]

Lai, Huei-ling and Yi-chen Chen. 2014. The influence of cultural universality and specificity on EFL learners' comprehension of metaphor and metonymy. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 24 (3) : 312–336.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Wiley

Annotation

Discussing the impact of cultural generality and specificity on Taiwanese EFL learners' metaphor and metonymy understanding, this paper proposes to unite conceptual metaphors and metonymies so as to forcibly enhance EFL learners' abstract concept awareness.