Metaphorical Competence in an EFL Context by Masumi Azuma

   ISBN4-88713-648-X      Price 5,200 Yen  (C)2005

   An ideal book for readers interested in teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) from a new perspective of language teaching. Informative, challenging and full of insights, the book examines all the key issues of metaphor study in language teaching. Topics include the history of metaphor, past and present theoretical accounts of metaphor in Japan and worldwide. The author blends innovative research into metaphorical competence in language education, with special focus on learners' mental lexicon and metaphorical competence (MC). One key factor of the research is the resultant data which clearly shows the richer the learners' mental lexicon, the higher the MC.

   In brief, this book offers an innovative study of theories of metaphor and metaphorical competence, an analysis of actual data resulting from the author・/span>s empirical (MC) tests, and the application of these findings for the enhancement of learner's linguistic competence. Readers will find the book not only interesting with regard to its account of theoretical issues and the research methods of metaphor and metaphorical competence, but also for what it can offer from a more practical and psychological point of view; concerned as it is with the fascinating subject of how human cognition operates in the brain processing metaphorical language. Thus, the book connects applied linguistics with its related fields theoretically and practically, so as to significantly broaden the research perspective for  TEFL.

 

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