Regular and novel metonymy: can you curl up with a good Agatha Christie in your second language?

This article presents results of two off-line comprehension tasks investigating the acceptability of unconventional and conventional metonymy by native speakers of Korean and Spanish who speak English as a second language. We are interested in discovering whether learners differentiate between conve...

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Main Authors: Slabakova, R. (Author), Cabrelli Amaro, J. (Author), Kyun Kang, S. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2014-04-10.
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