11.717, Qs: Cross-ling metaphors,Garden Path Sentences&SLA

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Subject: 11.717, Qs: Cross-ling metaphors,Garden Path Sentences&SLA

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Date:  Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:53:37 +0800
From:  "Madalena Cruz-Ferreira" <mcf at pacific.net.sg>
Subject:  Cross-linguistic metaphors

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Date:  Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:05:27 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
From:  "Treffers-Daller, Jeanine" <Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk>
Subject:  Garden Path Sentences and SLA

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Date:  Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:53:37 +0800
From:  "Madalena Cruz-Ferreira" <mcf at pacific.net.sg>
Subject:  Cross-linguistic metaphors

    Dear Linguists,

    Does anyone know of any studies in the use of different metaphorical
extensions of the same word in different languages/cultures? For example,
the word "banana" is used in Singapore English to chide an ethnical Chinese
who rejects his/her Asian background and acts/thinks like a Westerner -
"yellow in appearance, white inside", as Singaporeans describe its use. The
same word is used in (at least European) Portuguese to chide someone who's
unable to decide/think on his/her own - bananas come only in bunches of
identical-looking fruit.
    Many thanks for your help!

    Madalena
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Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
mcf at pacific.net.sg
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Date:  Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:05:27 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
From:  "Treffers-Daller, Jeanine" <Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk>
Subject:  Garden Path Sentences and SLA

Does anyone know whether any research has been done into
the processing of garden path sentences by second language
learners?
I will post a summary of replies.
thanks
Jeanine Treffers-Daller
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Treffers-Daller, Jeanine
Email: Jeanine.Treffers-Daller at uwe.ac.uk
"University of the West of England"

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