Metaphor: window to the native speakers' mind

• Main Author: Rashid Ali, Farrah Diebaa
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA 2014
• Subjects: PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania; PL5101 Malay
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/68080/1/3rd%20ILANNS_Proceedings_2014.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/68080/

This paper looks at the importance of learning and understanding metaphor among second language learners. It begins with a brief overview of the Sapir-Whorf linguistic relativity theory. It provides further discussion of Lakoff and Johnson (1980), Andrew Goatly (2000) and CharterisBlack’s (2011) f...