An Investigation into Metaphor Use at Different Levels of Second Language Writing

Littlemore, Jeannette; Krennmayr, Tina; Turner, James; Turner, Sarah

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“…The findings of this investigation confirm and complement those of earlier studies (Littlemore et al, 2013;MacArthur, 2010) and contribute additional evidence suggesting that special attention needs to be paid to both metaphor comprehension and metaphor use in L2, especially at the levels studied. However, some limitations have to be pointed out.…”

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“…Nowadays with the application of metaphor to second language teaching and learning, more and more language researchers are becoming interested in the value of metaphor in pedagogical context (Kövecses, 2001;Dirven, 2001;Piquer Píritz, 2008;Tyler, 2008;MacArthur, 2010), given that metaphor is ubiquitous both in thought and language (Deignan, 2005;MacArthur, 2010;Littlemore et al, 2013). A number of studies showed the benefits of the use of metaphor in language learning, for instance, metaphor helps to develop reading skills (Boers, 2000;Holme, 2004;Carter & MacCarthy, 2014), and also facilitates vocabulary learning (MacLennan, 1994;Taylor, 2003).…”

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“…However, much of this research has been concerned with how to help learners to understand metaphors in the target language, rather than how to produce metaphors. Some scholars have emphasized the importance of improving the metaphoric competence of students of English as a foreign language (Low, 1988;Ponterotto, 1994;Littlemore & Low, 2006;MacArthur, 2010;Littlemore et al, 2013).…”

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The Influence of the Mother Tongue on the Use of Metaphor in English as a Second Language

Iaroslavtseva¹,

Skorczynska²

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Metaphor has been widely recognized as a central tool of our cognitive apparatus, motivating the widespread use of metaphorical words and expressions in language and discourse. Therefore, it is important for language learners to use metaphors in the target language appropriately. The influence of the mother tongue on the use of metaphors in essays written by Spanish learners of English was analysed. Three corpora were used for this study: the experimental corpus contained 100 essays of Spanish-speaking learners of English, 50 with B2 level and 50 with C1 level (CEFR). The other two corpora were used as reference corpora: the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA). MIPVU method (Steen et al., 2010) was used to identify metaphors in the experimental corpus. The quantitative analysis showed that the influence of Spanish on errors in metaphors is higher at B2 level than at C1 level. The results of the analysis are especially helpful for learners and teachers of English as a Foreign Language as well as for testing researchers.

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The Influence of the Mother Tongue on the Use of Metaphor in English as a Second Language

Iaroslavtseva¹,

Skorczynska²

EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics

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“…Assessing aspects of content is a rapidly growing research topic, including evaluation of arguments, of the writer's use of information from source materials, of the coherence of the essay, among others (Ghosh et al, 2016;Persing and Ng, 2015;Stab and Gurevych, 2014;Song et al, 2014;Somasundaran et al, 2014;Gurevich and Deane, 2007). Use of metaphor is another aspect of language use that goes beyond grammar and mechanics; recent research suggests that use of metaphor differs with proficiency (Beigman Klebanov et al, 2013), including in non-native writing (Littlemore et al, 2013). On top of serving as a new dataset for metaphor detection experiments, our corpus supports investigation of the relationship between metaphor use and English proficiency.…”

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A Corpus of Non-Native Written English Annotated for Metaphor

Klebanov

Leong

Flor

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter Of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Hu

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“…In spite of the great expansion that research on learner corpora has seen in the last decade, after Granger's pioneering work and the compilation of the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE) (Granger et al 2002), followed by the compilation of many other learner corpora, little research has been published on the actual use of metaphor by learners (Littlemore & Low, 2006;Chapetón et al, 2012;Golden, 2012;Nacey, 2013;Littlemore et al, 2014). As shown earlier, there are several studies dealing with the study of metaphor in both public discourse and legal discourse.…”

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Immigration metaphors in a corpus of legal English: an exploratory study of EAL learners’ metaphorical production and awareness

2018

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Immigration metaphors in a corpusAbstract: Metaphor is central to human understanding and communication. It pervades our everyday language and also abounds in specialized discourse, with legal language not being an exception. This is particularly relevant since metaphors are powerful framing tools able to affect our worldview. With the aim of exploring the use that EAL law undergraduate students make of metaphorical expressions as well as their awareness of their connotations, a learner corpus was compiled and qualitatively analyzed. Results have shown that learners, like native speakers, rely on the use of conceptual metaphors such as migration is a natural force, states are containers or immigrants are a threat to describe immigration issues. This exploratory study has also revealed that learners are not always conscious of the negative slant that metaphors may convey and that raising their awareness is key to enhance critical thinking.Keywords: corpus linguistics; conceptual metaphor; metaphorical awareness; legal discourse; EAL learners.Resumen: La metáfora es un elemento central de la comunicación y la comprensión humana. Abunda en el lenguaje cotidiano y también en el de especialización, no siendo una excepción el discurso legal. Este hecho es relevante ya que las metáforas nos permiten enmarcar la realidad desde diversas perspectivas que condicionan nuestra perCastaño Castaño, Emilia; Laso Martín, Natalia Judith & Verdaguer Clavera, Isabel. 2017. "Immigration metaphors in a corpus of legal English: an exploratory study of EAL learners' metaphorical production and awareness". Quaderns de Filologia: Estudis Lingüístics 22: 245-272. doi: 10.7203/qf.22.11310 cepción del mundo. Con el objetivo de explorar el uso que los estudiantes de Derecho con inglés como lengua adicional (EAL) hacen de las metáforas y de determinar si son conscientes de sus connotaciones, se compiló y analizó cualitativamente un corpus de aprendices. Los resultados han demostrado que los aprendices al igual que los hablantes nativos utilizan metáforas conceptuales tales como la inmigración es una fuerza natural, los estados son contenedores o los inmigrantes son una amenaza para describir el fenómeno de la inmigración. Este estudio exploratorio también subrayó la importancia de que los aprendices sean conscientes de la carga negativa de algunas metáforas para promover el pensamiento crítico.Palabras clave: metáfora conceptual; conciencia metafórica; discurso legal; aprendices de EAL; lingüística de corpus.

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An Investigation into Metaphor Use at Different Levels of Second Language Writing

Cited by 97 publications

References 23 publications

The Influence of the Mother Tongue on the Use of Metaphor in English as a Second Language

The Influence of the Mother Tongue on the Use of Metaphor in English as a Second Language

A Corpus of Non-Native Written English Annotated for Metaphor

Immigration metaphors in a corpus of legal English: an exploratory study of EAL learners’ metaphorical production and awareness

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