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EFL Learners' Awareness of Metonymy-Metaphor Continuum in Figurative Expressions
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Chen, Yi-chen; Lai, Huei-ling – Language Awareness, 2012
Most studies about figurative language learning focus on metaphor rather than metonymy; however, the interactions of metonymy and metaphor are so intricate that the boundary forms not a dichotomy but a continuum. Such a continuum and its influences on figurative language learning have not been studied in depth. The present study investigates EFL…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries