The Eyes Tell a Story: An Eye-Tracking Exploration on Metaphor Comprehension and Learning in Second Language Speakers of English

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The Eyes Tell a Story: An Eye-Tracking Exploration on Metaphor Comprehension and Learning in Second Language Speakers of English

Despite the pervasiveness of metaphors in language, they are a challenging aspect of language comprehension. Many researchers have devoted their efforts to understand how people understand metaphors in a first language. However, not much research about the same process in a second language has been...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Aros Muñoz, Pablo
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2023
Subjects:	Metaphor comprehension Second language Eye-tracking Implicit learning Explicit learning
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/72060/

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