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Xinqing Wang; Frank Boers; Paul Warren – Language Awareness, 2024
Studies have shown that informing language learners about the literal underpinning of idioms can help them to remember these expressions. It has also been suggested that prompting learners to guess the meaning of lexical items may be beneficial because it can pique their curiosity and promote cognitive engagement. In the case of idioms, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language), Language Patterns
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Cheng, Gong – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study intends to provide a semantic analysis of metaphorical expressions containing the body-part term "heart" in Chinese and English. The discussion of these expressions revolves around four perceived roles of the heart. It is suggested that the metaphorical consequences have a bodily or psychological basis on our hearts. The…
Descriptors: Chinese, English, Figurative Language, Language Patterns
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Filik, Ruth; Ingram, Joanne; Moxey, Linda; Leuthold, Hartmut – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
According to the Presupposition-Denial Account, complement set reference arises when focus is on the "shortfall" between the amount conveyed by a natural language quantifier and a larger, expected amount. Negative quantifiers imply a shortfall, through the denial of a presupposition, whereas positive quantifiers do not. An exception may…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Linguistic Theory, Natural Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages)
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Altuntas Gursoy, Ilke; Sever, Sedat – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
The research purpose is examining the poems in Turkish textbooks for 1st-8th grade in terms of figurative language usage. The data source used in this qualitative study was gathered from the Turkish textbooks for the 1st-8th grade which was published in 2015-2016. The data were collected through document analysis and analysed via content analysis.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Proverbs, Language Patterns, Turkish
Luz-Ayde Himelhoch – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Everyday language consists of many idiomatic and figurative expressions. For non-native English speakers to achieve native fluency, control of idiomatics--native speech that includes the use of both idiomatic and figurative language--is paramount. In this study, I aimed to explore the use of comics and comic strips in the learning and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Language Patterns, Comprehension, Native Speakers