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Publication details [#61695]

Slabakova, Roumyana, Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro and Sang Kyun Kang. 2016. Regular and Novel Metonymy: Can You Curl up with a Good Agatha Christie in Your Second Language? Applied Linguistics 37 (2) : 175–197.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

foreign language proficiency | language transfer | metonymy | reading comprehension | second language acquisition

Language as a subject

English | Korean | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

Native Korean and Spanish speaking English L2 learners distinguish conventional and unconventional metonymy only in English. Midway skilled learners use native language transfer in grasping metonymic meaning changes. Total success in L2 metonymic pattern acquisition is observed in this experimental study.