TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anissa Daoudi
PY  - 2012
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1663-5809
SN  - 9783035301816
TI  - Cultural and Linguistic Encounters
T2  - Arab EFL Learners Encoding and Decoding Idioms
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0181-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051997
N2  - Idioms are universal to all languages, and figurative language is pervasive in everyday discourse. However, idiom studies rarely touch on the problems figurative language can present to non-native speakers. This book sets out to provide an original analysis of the issue, focusing on a number of languages, including Arabic, Berber, French and English. The author addresses the question of idiomaticity from linguistic, psycholinguistic and pedagogical perspectives, highlighting in particular the strategies used by Arab learners (primarily Saudis and Algerians) to decode and encode idioms.  The book explores in detail the process of identifying idioms and the factors that affect comprehension. The author also analyses the current state of bilingual Arabic-English-Arabic dictionaries and asks to what extent learners can rely on them as a source for decoding idioms.
KW  - the state of bilingual dictionaries (Arabic-English-Arabic) in the Arabic-speaking worl, the problems figurative language can present to non-native speakers, strategies used by Arab learners (primarily Saudis and Algerians) to decode and encode idioms
LA  - English
ER  -