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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

Keywords

abstractness | foreign language acquisition | language and culture | metaphor | metonymy

Language as a subject

Chinese, Taiwanese | English

Place, Publisher

Wiley

Journal WWW

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

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.