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Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2024
"A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor" (2024) upgrades ED628218 (ERIC) with labels and analysis and brings the work up to date to reflect language change at the speed of the internet, ChatGPT, social discord, and bloody wars. The dictionary identifies language used figuratively in everyday…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language)
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2023
"A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor" (2023) upgrades ED619049 (ERIC) and finishes its work. The dictionary identifies language used figuratively in everyday contemporary English--to include the language of "inclusion & exclusion" and "contempo-speak"--along with its…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language)
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2025
"A Dictionary of Contemporary Figurative Language" is meant to be an appendix to an earlier, more comprehensive work: ED648945, "A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor 2024." This appendix simply updates the dictionary of that previous work to better reflect the language used during the 2024…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Dictionaries, Phrase Structure
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Büsra Aras; Sultan Bozkurt; Serap Önen – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This research aimed to scrutinize and delineate the figures of speech manifesting in English hit songs. A selection of songs from Spotify's Top 30 Hit Songs List was chosen as the study material. The study employed a qualitative content analysis approach to classify the type and calculate the frequency of the figures of speech within the corpus of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2022
The third and latest (2022) edition of this dictionary and thesaurus of contemporary figurative language and metaphor has been updated to better reflect the language of groups, social media, and social change. The work seeks to identify language used figuratively in everyday contemporary English, along with its distinguishing collocates. The first…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Figurative Language
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2020
The purpose of this dictionary and thesaurus of contemporary figurative language and metaphor is to identify all the words and phrases used figuratively and metaphorically in everyday contemporary English and to categorize each word or phrase not only by meaning but also by what cognitive linguists and others have described variously as figure and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language, Phrase Structure
Reima Al-Jarf – Online Submission, 2023
Time metaphorical expressions are common in all languages and in general as well as specialized contexts. This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic time metaphorical expressions containing , and the difficulties that student-translators have in translating them; the translation strategies they use and the…
Descriptors: Time, Figurative Language, Arabic, English (Second Language)
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Chueasuai, Pasakara – rEFLections, 2021
Lexical metaphor functions as a rhetorical device that embellishes the texts with figurative meanings. In non-literary texts such as commercial texts on company websites, lexical metaphor can help to promote the company image and sales. It is vital in the service sector such as the airline industry where the competition is sky-high. This paper…
Descriptors: Business English, Translation, English (Second Language), Air Transportation
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Jaroenkitboworn, Kandaporn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
This paper aims to study English jokes on Facebook. Since the current generation of our students is often described as Net Geners, learning the English language via jokes posted on social media can be one of the supportive ways for EFL learners to improve their L2 linguistic competence as well as L2 humor competence. The data, or jokes, in this…
Descriptors: Humor, Social Media, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods
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Kuhi, Davud; Aghrabaei-Fam, Yousef; Rezaei, Shirin – International TESOL Journal, 2022
Metaphor analysis has been used as a cognitive tool to raise awareness about assumptions and beliefs held by teachers and learners about the process of learning and teaching. Motivated by such an ambition, this study conducted with a quantitative and descriptive design examined the metaphors produced by Iranian high school students in an EFL…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Figurative Language, English (Second Language)
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2019
The purpose of this dictionary and thesaurus of contemporary figurative language and metaphor is to identify all the words and phrases used figuratively and metaphorically in everyday English and to categorize each word or phrase not only by meaning but also by what cognitive linguists and others have described variously as figure and ground,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language
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Joharry, Siti Aeisha – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2021
One way to investigate learner writing is by analyzing the most frequently recurring sequences of words, that is, lexical bundles. This paper presents results for lexical bundles analyses of a Malaysian corpus (MCSAW) against its reference language variety, LOCNESS (Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays). Key 4-word lexical bundles are firstly…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Guo, Yi – English Language Teaching, 2019
Learning idioms has always been difficult for L2 learners of English. Drawing on a cognitive linguistic perspective of idiom learning, this paper reports on an empirical study that investigated the effects of incorporating the knowledge of conceptual metaphor and metonymy in L2 classroom instruction of English idioms. The study confirmed the…
Descriptors: Chinese, Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Chalak, Azizeh – TESL-EJ, 2021
The advent of social networks has provided a good platform for everyone to share information to present themselves. Instagram is a tool to participate in social reciprocity, not only by the exploration of information but also through self-praise. This study examined the self-praise by Iranian EFL learners on Instagram from a pragmatic perspective.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pragmatics, Social Networks, Social Media
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Ekoç-Özçelik, Arzu – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic brought life to an unexpected halt, and all levels of education including higher education had abrupt changes from face-to-face teaching to emergency remote teaching to sustain the continuity of education. English preparatory schools that provide newly-enrolled university students with one-year intensive English language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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