Acquiring metaphorical expressions in a second language : performance by Chinese learners of English /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mengying Xia, Chris (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Subjects:	Metaphor > Study and teaching. Language and languages > Study and teaching. Phraseology > Study and teaching. Figures of speech. Idioms. Second language acquisition > Study and teaching. Métaphore > Étude et enseignement. Langage et langues > Étude et enseignement. Phraséologie > Étude et enseignement. Idiotismes. Langue seconde > Acquisition > Étude et enseignement. Applied linguistics for ELT. Linguistics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > General. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Metaphorical expressions: A historical review
3. Metaphorical expressions under cross-linguistic influence
4. Processing metaphorical expressions by native speakers and learners
5. Placing metaphorical expressions in a bilingual mental lexicon
6. Methodologies in second language metaphor research
7. Two experiments on the acquisition of metaphorical expressions
8. Acquiring and teaching metaphorical expressions in a second language
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Instruction and sentences used in the acceptability judgment task
Appendix 2: Instruction, sentences and questions used in the self-paced reading task
Appendix 3: Lexical property scores for the critical lexical items
Index.