The Interplay of Cross-Linguistic Differences and Context in L2 Idiom Comprehension

Suñer, Ferran

dc.contributor.author	Suñer, Ferran	en
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-22T10:15:17Z
dc.date.available	2019-01-22T10:15:17Z
dc.date.issued	2019-01-11	en
dc.identifier.issn	1731-7533	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/26551
dc.description.abstract	The present study investigates to what extent the effect of cross-linguistic differences on L2 idiom comprehension is modulated by the presence of a context. Sixty students of German as a foreign language (L1 French) completed a comprehension test consisting of metaphorical idioms in the L2 that differed from their L1 equivalents conceptually and formally and were presented with or without context. The results show that an increasing degree of conceptual and formal distance as well as the absence of context are generally associated with lower performance in the idiom comprehension test. However, the analysis of interactions shows that the presence of the context was especially supportive for conceptually different items, whereas the facilitative effect of formal similarity considerably diminished with increasing conceptual distance.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Research in Language;16	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0	en
dc.subject	idioms	en
dc.subject	metaphoric competence	en
dc.subject	cross-linguistic differences	en
dc.title	The Interplay of Cross-Linguistic Differences and Context in L2 Idiom Comprehension	en
dc.page.number	495-513	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2083-4616
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	ferran.suner@uclouvain.be	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.2478/rela-2018-0024	en

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