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Direct linkPérez-Sobrino, Paula; Littlemore, Jeannette; Houghton, David – Applied Linguistics, 2019
To date, research in advertising has focussed almost exclusively on metaphor, with linguists and marketing scholars paying very little attention to alternative types of figurative expression. Beyond the finding that metaphor leads to an increased appreciation of advertisements, there has been surprisingly little research into how consumer response…
Descriptors: Advertising, Language Processing, Figurative Language, Cultural Differences
Carrol, Gareth; Littlemore, Jeannette – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Native speakers understand familiar idioms (e.g., "over the moon") and conventional metaphors (e.g., describing time as a doctor) quickly and easily. In two eye-tracking studies we considered how native speakers are able to make sense of fundamentally "unfamiliar" figurative expressions. In Experiment 1 compared with literal…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Eye Movements, Figurative Language, Comparative Analysis
Littlemore, Jeannette; Krennmayr, Tina; Turner, James; Turner, Sarah – Applied Linguistics, 2014
Recent studies in linguistics have shown that metaphor is ubiquitous. This has important consequences for language learners who need to use it appropriately in their speech and writing. This study aims to provide a preliminary measure of the amount and distribution of metaphor used by language learners in their writing across Common European…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Linguistics, Language Research, Second Language Instruction
Littlemore, Jeannette; Chen, Phyllis Trautman; Koester, Almut; Barnden, John – Applied Linguistics, 2011
This article reports a study on metaphor comprehension by the international students whose first language is not English, while attending undergraduate lectures at a British university. Study participants identified words or multiword items that they found difficult in extracts from four academic lectures, and they interpreted metaphors from those…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Students
Low, Graham; Littlemore, Jeannette; Koester, Almut – Applied Linguistics, 2008
It has been claimed in recent years that, on the one hand, metaphor occurs in UK university lectures in ways that are likely to confuse ESL learners (Littlemore 2001, 2003) and on the other hand that US lecturers use it in highly structured ways, particularly involving linked clusters, to help organize the lecture and indicate the opinions of the…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Figurative Language, Foreign Countries, Computational Linguistics
Littlemore, Jeannette; Low, Graham – Applied Linguistics, 2006
Recent developments in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance as well as the ubiquity of metaphor in language. Despite this, the ability of second language learners to use metaphors is often still not seen as a core ability. In this paper, we take a model of communicative competence that has been widely influential in both language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Languages, Figurative Language, Testing
