L1 Processing of familiar Malay Idiomatic Phrases

Psycholinguistic research in the area of figurative language processing has been carried out tremendously over the past few decades particularly involving idioms in the English language and other European languages. According to Cooper (1999), the meaning of an idiomatic expression does not always c...

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Main Authors: Radina, Mohd Deli, Rosnah, Mustafa, Monaliza, Sarbini-Zin, Siti Marina, Kamil, Hamidah, Abdul Wahab
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Published: 2014
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10035/1/L1%20PROCESSING%20OF%20FAMILIAR%20MALAY%20IDIOMATIC%20PHRASES%20%28abstract%29.pdf
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author Radina, Mohd Deli
Rosnah, Mustafa
Monaliza, Sarbini-Zin
Siti Marina, Kamil
Hamidah, Abdul Wahab
author_facet Radina, Mohd Deli
Rosnah, Mustafa
Monaliza, Sarbini-Zin
Siti Marina, Kamil
Hamidah, Abdul Wahab
author_sort Radina, Mohd Deli
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description Psycholinguistic research in the area of figurative language processing has been carried out tremendously over the past few decades particularly involving idioms in the English language and other European languages. According to Cooper (1999), the meaning of an idiomatic expression does not always come from meaning of its individual components. For instance, in the idiom to kick the bucket, none of the individual words contribute to the actual idiom meaning to die. In Malay language, a figurative phrase that is similar in notion to an ‘idiom’ in English is known as Simpulan Bahasa (Charteris-Black, 2003). The unique characteristic of idiomatic phrases as having ‘fixed’ meanings different from their single words components has prompted the research into first language (L1) and second language (L2) processing of figurative phrases or sentences. Various models, thus, have been developed contesting issues of compositionality in idiom comprehension (Bobrow & Bell, 1973; Swinney & Cutler, 1979), modular versus parallel views on processing (Cacciari & Tabossi, 1988; Tittone & Connine, 1999) and literality against non-literality (Gibbs, 1980, 1986), amongst other things.
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spelling unimas-100352016-01-05T06:35:55Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10035/ L1 Processing of familiar Malay Idiomatic Phrases Radina, Mohd Deli Rosnah, Mustafa Monaliza, Sarbini-Zin Siti Marina, Kamil Hamidah, Abdul Wahab P Philology. Linguistics Psycholinguistic research in the area of figurative language processing has been carried out tremendously over the past few decades particularly involving idioms in the English language and other European languages. According to Cooper (1999), the meaning of an idiomatic expression does not always come from meaning of its individual components. For instance, in the idiom to kick the bucket, none of the individual words contribute to the actual idiom meaning to die. In Malay language, a figurative phrase that is similar in notion to an ‘idiom’ in English is known as Simpulan Bahasa (Charteris-Black, 2003). The unique characteristic of idiomatic phrases as having ‘fixed’ meanings different from their single words components has prompted the research into first language (L1) and second language (L2) processing of figurative phrases or sentences. Various models, thus, have been developed contesting issues of compositionality in idiom comprehension (Bobrow & Bell, 1973; Swinney & Cutler, 1979), modular versus parallel views on processing (Cacciari & Tabossi, 1988; Tittone & Connine, 1999) and literality against non-literality (Gibbs, 1980, 1986), amongst other things. 2014 Proceeding NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10035/1/L1%20PROCESSING%20OF%20FAMILIAR%20MALAY%20IDIOMATIC%20PHRASES%20%28abstract%29.pdf Radina, Mohd Deli and Rosnah, Mustafa and Monaliza, Sarbini-Zin and Siti Marina, Kamil and Hamidah, Abdul Wahab (2014) L1 Processing of familiar Malay Idiomatic Phrases. In: Prosiding Seminar Antarabangsa Psikolinguistik III (SEAPSIL III) 2014, 2014. (Unpublished)
spellingShingle P Philology. Linguistics
Radina, Mohd Deli
Rosnah, Mustafa
Monaliza, Sarbini-Zin
Siti Marina, Kamil
Hamidah, Abdul Wahab
L1 Processing of familiar Malay Idiomatic Phrases
title L1 Processing of familiar Malay Idiomatic Phrases
title_full L1 Processing of familiar Malay Idiomatic Phrases
title_fullStr L1 Processing of familiar Malay Idiomatic Phrases
title_full_unstemmed L1 Processing of familiar Malay Idiomatic Phrases
title_short L1 Processing of familiar Malay Idiomatic Phrases
title_sort l1 processing of familiar malay idiomatic phrases
topic P Philology. Linguistics
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10035/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/10035/1/L1%20PROCESSING%20OF%20FAMILIAR%20MALAY%20IDIOMATIC%20PHRASES%20%28abstract%29.pdf