All Outputs (2)

Conclusion (2017)
Journal Article
Charteris-Black, J. (2017). Conclusion. Metaphor and the Social World, 7(1), 122-129. https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.7.1.08cha

The purpose of religion is to offer a unified way of thinking about the world so that it has a meaning in its totality; it makes connections between nature, man's behaviour and the cosmic order. Since metaphor is also concerned with making connection... Read More about Conclusion.

Second Language Figurative Proficiency: A Comparative Study of Malay and English (2002)
Journal Article
Charteris-Black, J. (2002). Second Language Figurative Proficiency: A Comparative Study of Malay and English. Applied Linguistics, 23(1), 104-133+156. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/23.1.104

This paper explores the potential of cognitive linguistic notions such as conceptual metaphor and conceptual metonym for comparing the figurative phraseologies of English and Malay and anticipating second language learner difficulty. A comparative an... Read More about Second Language Figurative Proficiency: A Comparative Study of Malay and English.