Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Loanwords and metaphors
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| Author: | petek kurtboke | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Sociolinguistics
Language Acquisition |
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| Query: |
1) In a recent study of Italian loanwords in the Bank of English (*) we have
come across an average culinary loan which has acquired metaphorical uses: 'spaghetti straps' 'spaghetti junction' 'spaghetti westerns' (?) This seems a rare phenomenon however. Is anyone aware of research on loanwords in relation to metaphor? Can anyone think of loans in their language/s with metaphorical uses? 2) Has there been research on the Italian verb PIACERE? pkurtboke@hotmail.com (*) Petek Kurtboke and Liz Potter 2000 Cooccurrence Tendencies of Loanwords in Corpora. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 5:1 (http://www.benjamins.nl/jbp/index.html) Dear Colleagues: I'm looking for references that address the issue of how L2 learners' profiency level may relate to their rate of progress in the L2, especially with respect to differences between the acquistion of grammar and pronunciation. Any orientation in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, John J. Stevens University of Southern California jstevens@scf.usc.edu |
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| LL Issue: | 11.1253 | |
| Date posted: | 04-Jun-2000 | |
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