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Acquiring Metaphorical Expressions a Second Language: Performance by Chinese Learners of English
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Acquiring Metaphorical Expressions a Second Language: Performance by Chinese Learners of English
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Acquiring Metaphorical Expressions a Second Language: Performance by Chinese Learners of English
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Conventional metaphorical expressions are widely used by native speakers in everyday language and have received extensive attention in theoretical semantics and cognitive linguistics. However, how a
language learner can acquire those expressions is left largely unknown. Researchers and language learners face the question: if one has acquired the literal meaning of a word, can they automatically derive the metaphorical meaning?