Idiom Comprehension Skills of Adult Struggling Readers
Idioms such as break a leg and piece of cake make up a significant portion of spoken and written discourse. Like other linguistic expressions stemming from conceptual metaphor (e.g., metaphors, similes), idioms serve to provide understanding of one concept in relation to a different concept (e.g., l...
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ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University
2014
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| Online Access: | http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/epse_diss/98 http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1109&context=epse_diss |