Interpreting idioms in a second language:The role of context and transfer in interpreting English idioms by native Dutch speakers
How do people understand figurative speech in a foreign language? What strategies do they use? By means of an online questionnaire, this study investigated to what extent contextual information and transfer play a role in the interpretation of idioms in a second language, controlling for familiarity. Sixty-one native speakers of Dutch were asked to guess the correct interpretation of English idioms with and without a Dutch equivalent, presented with and without context, out of four answer options. The results showed that correctly interpreting an idiom depends on both the presence of context a... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | van Dijk , D , Vogels , J & de Vries , M 2022 , ' Interpreting idioms in a second language : The role of context and transfer in interpreting English idioms by native Dutch speakers ' , Linguistics in the Netherlands , vol. 39 , pp. 55-71 . https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00061.dij |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27446711 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/a4b55bf3-4384-46d7-934d-1423104579f9 |