A modern bestiary: a contrastive study of the figurative meanings of animal terms  

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Nesi, Hilary

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: ELT Journal = English Language Teaching Journal (Full Text) vol. 49 no. 3 (Jul. 1995), page 272-278.
Fulltext: 1995.3.272.full.pdf (410.99KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ELT/49 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This paper discusses the figurative meanings attached to the names of different animals in different cultures, and highlights some of the problems language learners and translators face when dealing with single-word conventional metaphor. Informants from thirty-eight geographical responded to a questionnaire inviting them to comment on the figurative use made of animal names in their cultures. Many common terms such 'cat', 'cow' and 'mouse' were found to have a wide range of figurative meanings, and discussions with informants revealed that even advanced learners tend to think in terms of the connotations of their first cui when they encounter or use these words in a figurative sense in English.

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