Difficulties in metaphor comprehension faced by international students whose first language is not english

Applied Linguistics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 408-429

  Littlemore, Jeannette ^a   Chen, Phyllis Trautman ^a   Koester, Almut ^a   Barnden, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80051643164     PISSN: 01426001     EISSN: 1477450X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/applin/amr009     Document Type: Article

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