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Graedler, Anne-Line – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
This article explores some dimensions of how the role of the English language in Norway has been discursively constructed in newspapers during recent years, based on the analysis of data from the five-year period 2008-2012. The analysis is conducted using a specialised corpus containing 3,743 newspaper articles which were subjected to corpus-based…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Negative Attitudes, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries
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Erdmann, Susan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
Linguistics has long recognised that figurative language in the form of metaphorical expressions structures and communicates attitudes towards the ideas and concepts being expressed and that multilingual students also employ linguistic figures frequently in their writing. In this study, multilingual students use figurative language to both…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Correlation