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Direct linkRodríguez-Cuadrado, Sara; Ojedo, Fernando; Vicente-Conesa, Francisco; Romero-Rivas, Carlos; Sampedro, Miguel Ángel Carlos; Santiago, Julio – Second Language Research, 2023
Several studies have explored the use of iconic gestures to improve the learning of foreign vocabulary. In this quest, words for abstract concepts have been largely neglected, under the assumption that abstract concepts have poor or non-existent sensory-motor representations. Yet, the Conceptual Metaphor Theory suggests that they are grounded on…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sign Language, Foreign Countries
Fioravanti, Irene; Senaldi, Marco Silvio Giuseppe; Lenci, Alessandro; Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna – Second Language Research, 2021
The present investigation focuses on first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers' sensitivity to lexical fixedness and compositionality of Italian word combinations. Two studies explored language users' intuitions about three types of word combinations: free combinations, collocations, and idioms. In Study 1, Italian Verb+Noun…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Italian, Phrase Structure
Türker, Ebru – Second Language Research, 2016
This study investigates how figurative language is processed by learners of a second language (L2). With an experiment testing L2 comprehension of figurative expressions in three categories, each combining shared and unshared first language (L1) and L2 lexical representations and conceptual representations in a different way, the study…
Descriptors: Language Role, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Figurative Language
Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna; Conklin, Kathy; Schmitt, Norbert – Second Language Research, 2011
Using eye-tracking, we investigate on-line processing of idioms in a biasing story context by native and non-native speakers of English. The stimuli are idioms used figuratively ("at the end of the day"--"eventually"), literally ("at the end of the day"--"in the evening"), and novel phrases ("at the end of the war"). Native speaker results…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Eye Movements, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
Kecskes, Istvan – Second Language Research, 2006
This article discusses three claims of the Graded Salience Hypothesis presented in Rachel Giora's book "On our mind". It is argued that these claims may give second language researchers the chance to revise the way they think about word meaning, the literal meaning-figurative meaning dichotomy and the role of context in language…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Language Research, Figurative Language
Cieslicka, Anna – Second Language Research, 2006
This article addresses the question of how second language (L2) learners understand idiomatic expressions in their second/foreign language and advances the proposition that literal meanings of idiom constituents enjoy processing priority over their figurative interpretations. This suggestion forms the core of the literal-salience resonant model of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, Language Patterns, Language Processing
