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A cross-linguistic analysis of idiom comprehension by native and nonnative speakers.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A cross-linguistic analysis of idiom comprehension by native and nonnative speakers./
Author:	Bortfeld, Heather.
Description:	151 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-01, Section: B, page: 0432.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-01B.
Subject:	Psychology, Cognitive. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9822946
ISBN:	0591748983

A cross-linguistic analysis of idiom comprehension by native and nonnative speakers.
Bortfeld, Heather.

A cross-linguistic analysis of idiom comprehension by native and nonnative speakers. - 151 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-01, Section: B, page: 0432.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1997.

This dissertation is a cross-linguistic analysis of idiom comprehension that addresses two major points: (1) the manner in which people comprehend figurative speech in their own language (in this case, English), and (2) the degree to which people are able to apply conceptual knowledge from their first language (in this case, English, Latvian, or Mandarin) to make sense of figurative speech used in another (second or foreign) language.

ISBN: 0591748983Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017810
Psychology, Cognitive.

A cross-linguistic analysis of idiom comprehension by native and nonnative speakers.
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520 $a This dissertation is a cross-linguistic analysis of idiom comprehension that addresses two major points: (1) the manner in which people comprehend figurative speech in their own language (in this case, English), and (2) the degree to which people are able to apply conceptual knowledge from their first language (in this case, English, Latvian, or Mandarin) to make sense of figurative speech used in another (second or foreign) language.
520 $a Two series of studies illustrate how conceptual metaphors guide our understanding (and creation) of idiomatic language: The first examines native and non-native English speakers' mental images for idioms. Even when explicitly instructed to base their images on phrases' literal meanings, speakers described images that reflected underlying conceptual metaphors. Non-native speakers used idioms more naturally following the imaging task, indicating that it helped them effectively map the phrases' metaphorical underpinnings to their surface structures. In a second imaging study, a different group of non-native English speakers (in this case, native Mandarin speakers) produced similar images based on idioms' literal meanings both before and after being made aware of the phrases' idiomatic meanings. This finding indicates that mental images are not based solely on an idiom's figurative meaning.
520 $a The second series of studies examines native and non-native speakers' ability to understand normally, abnormally, and unanalyzable idioms. Findings indicate that comprehension of abnormally-analyzable idioms from one's own language is automatic. However, speakers took significantly longer to correctly categorize another language's abnormally-than normally-analyzable idioms. Finally, speakers correctly categorized fewer unanalyzable idioms from another than from their own language and took longer to do so, suggesting that these idioms require particular cultural/historical knowledge to be understood.
520 $a Together, the studies reported here critically test the hypothesis that universally-held metaphorical structures constrain the surface forms with which underlying concepts are represented in any language. These findings highlight the degree to which we are able to flexibly accommodate old and new, familiar and unfamiliar language through relying more or less on the interconnected bodies of metaphorical meaning we have been developing our entire lives.
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