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- Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation
- Relevance, Pragmatics and InterpretationEssays in Honour of Deirdre Wilson
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Cover Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Reflections on the Development of Relevance Theory
- Part I Relevance Theory and Cognitive Communicative Issues
- Part II Pragmatics and Linguistic Issues
- Part III Figurative Language and Layered Interpretations
- 15 Metaphor and Metonymy in Acquisition
- 16 Relevance and Metaphor Understanding in a Second Language
- 17 Component Processes of Irony Comprehension in Children
- 18 Allegory in Relation to Metaphor and Irony
- 19 Slave of the Passions
- 20 Adaptations as Communicative Acts
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
16 - Relevance and Metaphor Understanding in a Second Language
from Part III - Figurative Language and Layered Interpretations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2019
- Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation
- Relevance, Pragmatics and InterpretationEssays in Honour of Deirdre Wilson
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Cover Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Reflections on the Development of Relevance Theory
- Part I Relevance Theory and Cognitive Communicative Issues
- Part II Pragmatics and Linguistic Issues
- Part III Figurative Language and Layered Interpretations
- 15 Metaphor and Metonymy in Acquisition
- 16 Relevance and Metaphor Understanding in a Second Language
- 17 Component Processes of Irony Comprehension in Children
- 18 Allegory in Relation to Metaphor and Irony
- 19 Slave of the Passions
- 20 Adaptations as Communicative Acts
- References
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
The focus of this chapter is on issues arising for the understanding of metaphors in a second language learning context. Elly Ifantidou presents an empirical study in which native Greek-speaking learners of English were presented with a selection of metaphors from British newspapers. The results of this comprehension task suggest that even when second language learners are confronted with a metaphor whose intended propositional content they cannot fully grasp, the literal content of the metaphor may still trigger images, sensorimotor processes and emotional attitudes which provide them with a partial interpretation.
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- Relevance, Pragmatics and Interpretation , pp. 218 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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