The present study focuses on the influence of L2 learners’ attitude towards and perception of sexual taboo expressions on their comprehension of metaphorical taboo expressions. Other aspects such as the presence of contextual information and the L2 learners’ stay abroad experience were also included in the study design. A total of 53 students of Spanish as a foreign language were presented with metaphorical taboo expressions from the MadSex corpus. They also were asked to rate their reticence to talk about sex and to use sexual taboo expressions. The results show that a higher degree of reticence to talk about sex is associated with a worse performance on the metaphor comprehension test. Furthermore, learners with a stay-abroad experience o...
Taboo English is an area of inquiry that has been overlooked in the research literature. Little appe...
This particular study is aimed to scrutinize a mental concept, metaphor, in language learning and la...
The purposes of this research are to determine the types of taboo words, the functions of taboo word...
In line with Danesi (2008), we assume that well developed multilingualism goes hand in hand with an ...
Our paper focuses on the comprehension of figurative language by L2 speakers, with a focus on the co...
In this paper, we analyze to what extent well developed multilingualism goes hand in hand with an ad...
English: This investigation lies in the field of linguistics, more specifically the theory of second...
This research aims to analyze the acceptability aspects of taboo termstranslation contained in the s...
Words are social constructs, relying on collectively agreed upon meanings for their significance. Ce...
The social motivation of linguistic taboo is widely acknowledged in the literature (Allan & Burridge...
Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura InglesaTaboo expressio...
Despite its ubiquitous employment by users of English to achieve authentic communicative goals, tabo...
This article reports a study on metaphor comprehension by the international students whose first lan...
Linguistic taboo has been relegated for a long time to a peripheral position within Linguistics, due...
Some of the main sexual taboo words are said to have thousands of names in the Spanish popular tradi...
Taboo English is an area of inquiry that has been overlooked in the research literature. Little appe...
This particular study is aimed to scrutinize a mental concept, metaphor, in language learning and la...
The purposes of this research are to determine the types of taboo words, the functions of taboo word...
In line with Danesi (2008), we assume that well developed multilingualism goes hand in hand with an ...
Our paper focuses on the comprehension of figurative language by L2 speakers, with a focus on the co...
In this paper, we analyze to what extent well developed multilingualism goes hand in hand with an ad...
English: This investigation lies in the field of linguistics, more specifically the theory of second...
This research aims to analyze the acceptability aspects of taboo termstranslation contained in the s...
Words are social constructs, relying on collectively agreed upon meanings for their significance. Ce...
The social motivation of linguistic taboo is widely acknowledged in the literature (Allan & Burridge...
Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura InglesaTaboo expressio...
Despite its ubiquitous employment by users of English to achieve authentic communicative goals, tabo...
This article reports a study on metaphor comprehension by the international students whose first lan...
Linguistic taboo has been relegated for a long time to a peripheral position within Linguistics, due...
Some of the main sexual taboo words are said to have thousands of names in the Spanish popular tradi...
Taboo English is an area of inquiry that has been overlooked in the research literature. Little appe...
This particular study is aimed to scrutinize a mental concept, metaphor, in language learning and la...
The purposes of this research are to determine the types of taboo words, the functions of taboo word...