This paper sure is a brass ring!  : A quantitative study on the effect of context for non-native students’ interpretation of English idioms.

Idioms are a big part of languages but can cause trouble for communication, especially for non-native speakers of a language. Interpreting idioms correctly means that one must derive a figurative meaning from words that individually mean something else. Recent research primarily focuses on the impac...

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Main Author: Halling, Angelica
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation 2018
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-38225