Essays about: "figurative idiom"

Showing result 6 - 7 of 7 essays containing the words figurative idiom.

1. 6. Measuring the Impact of Cultural Context on Chinese ESL University Learners’ Comprehension and Memorization of Figurative Idioms

   University essay from Sektionen för lärande och miljö

   Author : Zhou ChunKe; [2011]
   Keywords : figurative idiom; culture; cultural context;

   Abstract : This paper primarily focuses on the description of the results of a study conducted on ten Chinese university students ESL learners to investigate  whether or not cultural context has a significant impact on university students’ ability to remember and understand English figurative idioms as part of English as a Second Language instruction in China. Since Idiom  is a kind of language block which concord rich cultural elements and the figurative idiom whose meaning cannot be easy inferred by the usual meaning of its constituent elements, so the present study was based on the relationship between culture and language, the origins of the idioms and their cultural connotations. READ MORE

3. 7. Punning Exploiting External and Internal Metaphors : A Study of Groucho Marx's Use of Metaphor Reversal

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   Author : Kalle Larsson; [2007]
   Keywords : polysemy; punning; metaphor reversal; figurative meaning; literal meaning; internal metaphor; external metaphor; idiom; continuum; universe of discourse;

   Abstract : The aim of this study has been to analyse metaphorical strings which have been interpreted literally, a process referred to as metaphor reversal. This was first described by Löflund (1999:18) and the specific term was later coined by Alm-Arvius (2006:6). Metaphor reversal is basically a subcategory of the broader term polysemy punning. READ MORE