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...
Main Author: | Halling, Angelica |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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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 |
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