Regular and novel metonymy: can you curl up with a good Agatha Christie in your second language?
Regular and novel metonymy: can you curl up with a good Agatha Christie in your second language?
This article presents results of two off-line comprehension tasks investigating the acceptability of unconventional and conventional metonymy by native speakers of Korean and Spanish who speak English as a second language. We are interested in discovering whether learners differentiate between conventional and unconventional metonymy, and whether the acceptability of metonymic expressions in the native language has an effect on learners’ judgments in the second language. The findings of this study constitute further experimental support for the psychological reality of the distinction between conventional and unconventional metonymy, but only in English. Learners of English at intermediate levels of proficiency exhibit transfer from the native language in comprehending metonymic shifts of meanings. Restructuring of the grammar is evident in later stages of development. Finally, complete success in acquiring L2 metonymic patterns is attested in our experimental study. Implications for L2A theories and teaching practices are discussed.
metonymy comprehension, conventional (regular) metonymy, unconventional metonymy, korean, spanish, english, bottleneck hypothesis
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Slabakova, R.
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Cabrelli Amaro, J.
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Kyun Kang, S.
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10 April 2014
Slabakova, R.
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Cabrelli Amaro, J.
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Kyun Kang, S.
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Slabakova, R., Cabrelli Amaro, J. and Kyun Kang, S.
(2014)
Regular and novel metonymy: can you curl up with a good Agatha Christie in your second language?
Applied Linguistics, .
(doi:10.1093/applin/amu003).
Abstract
This article presents results of two off-line comprehension tasks investigating the acceptability of unconventional and conventional metonymy by native speakers of Korean and Spanish who speak English as a second language. We are interested in discovering whether learners differentiate between conventional and unconventional metonymy, and whether the acceptability of metonymic expressions in the native language has an effect on learners’ judgments in the second language. The findings of this study constitute further experimental support for the psychological reality of the distinction between conventional and unconventional metonymy, but only in English. Learners of English at intermediate levels of proficiency exhibit transfer from the native language in comprehending metonymic shifts of meanings. Restructuring of the grammar is evident in later stages of development. Finally, complete success in acquiring L2 metonymic patterns is attested in our experimental study. Implications for L2A theories and teaching practices are discussed.
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Published date: 10 April 2014
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metonymy comprehension, conventional (regular) metonymy, unconventional metonymy, korean, spanish, english, bottleneck hypothesis
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