- Home
- Books
- Metaphor in Use
- Chapter
Chapter 5. Metaphor variation across L1 and L2 speakers of English
Do differences at the level of linguistic metaphor matter?
- Author(s): Marlene Johansson Falck 1
-
View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations:1 Umeå University, Sweden
- Source: Metaphor in Use , pp 109-134
- Publication Date October 2012
English and Swedish, which are both Germanic languages spoken in similar cultures in the Western World, display many similarities with regard to the conceptual metaphors reflected in them. However, the way that the same conceptual metaphor is linguistically instantiated in both languages may be somewhat different. This chapter is a corpus-based analysis of metaphorical ‘path’, ‘road’, and ‘way’ sentences in English produced by speakers with British English as their first language (L1) and Swedish university students with English as their second language (L2). The aim is to see how these L2 speakers of English deal with differences at the level of linguistic metaphor in the two languages, and find out how important this level of organization really is.
- Affiliations: 1: Umeå University, Sweden
-
From This Site
/content/books/9789027273468-hcp.38.10johdcterms_subject,pub_keyword-contentType:Journal105