Using conceptual metaphors and metonymies in vocabulary teaching

Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 65-99

  Beréndi, Márta ^a   Csábi, Szilvia ^b   Kövecses, Zoltán ^b  

^a Kodolányi János University   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Deep processing; Dual coding; Idioms; L1 transfer; Learner autonomy; Metaphor; Metonymy; Pictorial elucidation; Polysemes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85119168241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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