[图书][B] Figurative thinking and foreign language learning

J Littlemore, GD Low - 2006 - books.google.com
Many vocabulary items that foreign language learners encounter involve figurative
extensions of meaning. To understand figurative speech, learners often need to employ …

Using figurative language to expand students' vocabulary

G Lazar - ELT journal, 1996 - academic.oup.com
Figurative language is an area often neglected in the teaching of vocabulary. This article
examines some definitions, and suggests examples of types of figurative language to which …

Figurative thought and figurative language.

RW Gibbs Jr - 1994 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract discuss some of the experimental evidence on how common ground provides the
context for people's fluency with figurative speech/illustrate how our ability to conceptualize …

Second language figurative proficiency: A comparative study of Malay and English

J Charteris‐Black - Applied linguistics, 2002 - academic.oup.com
This paper explores the potential of cognitive linguistic notions such as conceptual metaphor
and conceptual metonym for comparing the figurative phraseologies of English and Malay …

Evaluating contemporary models of figurative language understanding

RW Gibbs Jr - Metaphor and symbol, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
The 7 articles in this collection describe new views of figurative language understanding.
These articles differ in the types of figurative language they examine and address different …

[图书][B] Figurative language comprehension: Social and cultural influences

HL Colston, AN Katz - 2004 - books.google.com
Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is
an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension …

Expanding learners' vocabulary through metaphor awareness: What expansion, what learners, what vocabulary

F Boers - Cognitive linguistics, second language acquisition, and …, 2004 - degruyter.com
One of the central tenets ofCogmtive Semantics (eg, Gibbs 1994, lohnson 1987, Lakoff
1987) is that the meaning of many conventional figurative expressions, including figurative …

[图书][B] Figurative language and thought

AN Katz, C Cacciari, RW Gibbs Jr, M Turner - 1998 - books.google.com
Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several
important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought …

Figurative language and cognitive psychology

HR Pollio, MK Smith, MR Pollio - Language and cognitive …, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
The past decade has witnessed the development of a significant body of research and
theory concerning the areas of figurative language use and comprehension. The purpose of …

[图书][B] Figurative language

B Dancygier, E Sweetser - 2014 - books.google.com
This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including
metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It …