Fiona MacArthur

List of John Benjamins publications for which Fiona MacArthur plays a role.

Book series

Journal

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Metaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication

Edited by Fiona MacArthur, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz

[Human Cognitive Processing, 38] 2012. x, 379 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
MacArthur, Fiona 2021 AfterwordMetaphor in Education: A multilingual perspective, Ahlgren, Katrin, Anne Golden and Ulrika Magnusson (eds.), pp. 352–359 | Afterword
In comparison with the interest shown in the difficulties second language (L2) speakers have in understanding English metaphors, very little attention has been paid to examining the metaphors they actually produce, particularly in the oral mode. In this chapter I examine the metaphors used by L2… read more
MacArthur, Fiona 2019 Chapter 14. Linguistic metaphor identification in English as a lingua francaMetaphor Identification in Multiple Languages: MIPVU around the world, Nacey, Susan, Aletta G. Dorst, Tina Krennmayr and W. Gudrun Reijnierse (eds.), pp. 289–312 | Chapter
Twenty-seven semi-guided office hours’ consultations between lecturers andSpanish-speaking undergraduate students were recorded at five different universities in Europe where English is the medium of instruction. The linguistic data gathered show that metaphor plays a significant role in the way… read more
MacArthur, Fiona 2016 Chapter 7. When languages and cultures meet: Mixed metaphors in the discourse of Spanish speakers of EnglishMixing Metaphor, Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W. (ed.), pp. 133–154 | Article
This chapter examines the metaphors used by speakers of English as a second language (L2), showing how these are often the result of the mixing of two linguistic and conceptual systems. The resulting “hybrid” metaphors may be unconventional in English and therefore seen as problems in need of… read more
Twenty-seven semi-guided office hours’ consultations between lecturers and Spanish-speaking undergraduate students were recorded at five different universities in Europe where English is the medium of instruction. The linguistic data gathered show that metaphor plays a significant role in the way… read more
This article-cum-narrative reflects on the use — indeed usefulness — of a dictionary in helping the researcher to identify metaphorical and non-metaphorical uses of language. Focusing on a group of ‘saying’ verbs as they were used in a face-to-face conversation between a university lecturer and an… read more
MacArthur, Fiona and José Luis Oncins-Martínez 2012 Introduction: Metaphor in useMetaphor in Use: Context, culture, and communication, MacArthur, Fiona, José Luis Oncins-Martínez, Manuel Sánchez-García and Ana M. Piquer-Píriz (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
Although quite a lot is known about the way that non-native speakers of English may interpret and produce metaphors in their second language, we know little about metaphor use in face-to-face conversation between primary and secondary speakers of English. In this article we explore the use of… read more
Although there exists a number of studies that have shown the benefits of applying the cognitive linguistics notion of motivation to foster comprehension and retention of conventional English metaphors, relatively little attention has been paid to EFL learners’ productive use of metaphor in speech… read more