Metaphorical competence in an EFL context: the mental lexicon and metaphorical competence of Japanese EFL students

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Metaphorical competence in an EFL context: the mental lexicon and metaphorical competence of Japanese EFL students

This thesis on metaphor and metaphor study covers theoretical and practical issues in the past and the present both in the occidental and oriental worlds. Metaphor in rhetoric, cognitive and applied linguistics is described briefly, mostly as a theoretical issue. It states that metaphor was treated...

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Main Author:	Azuma, Masumi
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2004
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11894/

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