Metaphor and metonymy in Cantonese and English body-part idioms: a comparative, cognitive semantic study, with pedagogic applications.
Although it is generally accepted that L2 learners of English need to gain a good grasp of idioms, the teaching and learning of idioms in L2 is no easy task. One of the reasons is that idioms are enormous in number. The Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary (2002) lists over 6,000 idioms which are of c...
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| Language: | English Chinese |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6074794 http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-344427 |