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Can You Play with Fire and Not Hurt Yourself? A Comparative Study in Figurative Language Comprehension between Individuals with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Individuals with High functioning autism (HFA) are distinguished by relative preservation of linguistic and cognitive skills. However, problems with pragmatic language skills have been consistently reported across the autistic spectrum, even when ...
Sobh Chahboun +4 more
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Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2023 Figurative language analysis in a novel involves examining the author's use of various literary devices and techniques to enhance the narrative, evoke emotions, and create a deeper understanding of the text.
Dwi Indarti +2 more
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When emotions are expressed figuratively:psycholinguistic and affective norms of 619 idioms for German (PANIG) [PDF]
, 2015 Despite flourishing research on the relationship between emotion and literal language, and despite the pervasiveness of figurative expressions in communication, the role of figurative language in conveying affect has been under-investigated.
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Previous work has shown that prior experience in language brokering (informal translation) may facilitate the processing of meaning within and across language boundaries.
Belem G. López +3 more
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Cross language priming extends to formulaic units: evidence from eye-tracking suggests that this idea “has legs” [PDF]
, 2015 Idiom priming effects (faster processing compared to novel phrases) are generally robust in native speakers but not non-native speakers. This leads to the question of how idioms and other multiword units are represented and accessed in a first (L1) and ...
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Ibérica, 2022 concepts are frequently expressed in natural language by means of metaphors, metonymies and other types of figurative language. Knowledge and appropriate use of these conceptual instances of actual language use by university graduates are related to L2 ...
Antonio Jimenez-Munoz +1 more
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“Drugs, traffic, and many other dirty interests”: metaphor and the language learner [PDF]
, 2006 Research into metaphor in foreign language teaching has primarily focused on the comprehension process, with little if any attention being paid to its effect on students' spoken and written production.
Philip, Gill
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 This study examines the processing of metaphoric reference by bilingual speakers. English dominant, Spanish dominant, and balanced bilinguals read passages in English biasing either a figurative (e.g., describing a weak and soft fighter that always lost ...
Roberto Ramírez Heredia +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 In everyday communication metaphoric expressions are frequently used to refer to abstract concepts, such as feelings or mental states. Patients with depression are said to prefer literal over figurative language, i.e.
Christina Kauschke +3 more
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The Translation of Figurative Languages in Novel Lelaki Harimau by Eka Kurniawan
Mozaik Humaniora, 2020 Translation plays roles in providing access from various sciences and the latest technology, literature, religion, and culture. Novel is one of literary works that is translated into several languages.
Nurul Huda Gustema
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