Primary Metaphors in German learning as a foreign language: a case study

Authors

  • Angela Inês Klein Pucrs
  • Érica Krachefski Nunes Pucrs

Keywords:

, Primary metaphors, German, Portuguese, universality

Abstract

The present work is a case study which investigates the comprehension of Primary Metaphors in German as a foreign language. Assuming that the Primary Metaphors are potentially universal, it was aimed to analyze the comprehension of five metaphors in the foreign language from the linguistic actualization elaborated by the learner, as well as verify if the second language learner compares the linguistic instantiations in German with the linguistic instantiation in Portuguese. The results corroborated the assumption that the researched metaphors can be potentially universal.

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Angela Inês Klein, Pucrs

Mestranda em Lingüística Aplicada

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Published

2010-10-08

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Klein, A. I., & Nunes, Érica K. (2010). Primary Metaphors in German learning as a foreign language: a case study. Letrônica, 3(1), 142–152. Retrieved from https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/letronica/article/view/7005

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2010): Aquisição da Linguagem & Memória e Subjetividade

Section

Linguistics Topic 2: Bilingualism; Acquisition of Second Language

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