A study of the acquisition of connotative meaning by Japanese speakers of English
The purpose of this study was to discover how well adult Japanese speakers of English had acquired the connotative meanings of 39 selected English animal, bird and colour terms. Seventy subjects from Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan were given three elicitation instruments to complete. On one ins...
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University of British Columbia
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28429 |