Developing Business English Students’ Metaphorical Competence in Foreign Language Learning Higher Education Contexts
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https://doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.38.2017.113-138Keywords:
metaphor, metaphoric processing, metaphorical competence, foreign language learningAbstract
This article is aimed at showing the ways in which Business English teachers may be able to facilitate the use of metaphor for their students since it is a part of the lexicon which causes them the most difficulties. The inclusion of the study of metaphors in a specific English language programme can provide students with a useful tool to interpret vocabulary, improve reading skills and understand different cultural backgrounds. Our aim is to put forward a didactic proposal to be used in English for Specific Purposes (ESP) programmes at a Master’s course currently taught at the University of Almería, Spain, in order to develop students’ metaphorical competence within the foreign language learning process.
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Bailey, Richard. “Conceptual Metaphor, Language, Literature and Pedagogy.” Journal of Language and Learning 2 (2003): 59‒72.
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Boers, Frank, and Murielle Demecheeler. “A Few Metaphorical Models in Western Economic Discourse.” Discourse and Perspective in Cognitive Linguistics. Eds. Wolf Andreas Liebert, Gesela Redeker and Linda Waugh. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997: 115‒129.
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Charteris-Black, Jonathan. “Metaphor and Vocabulary Teaching.” ESP Economics, English for Special Purposes 33 (1998): 59‒60.
Charteris-Black, Jonathan. “Metaphor and Vocabulary Teaching in ESP Economics.” English for Specific Purposes 19 (2000): 149‒165.
Cortés de los Ríos, María Enriqueta. “The Teaching of Metaphor in the Advertising Discourse of Business Newspapers.” Ibérica 3 (2001): 91‒106.
Cortés de los Ríos, María Enriqueta. “The Teaching of Metaphor and Vocabulary Used in Financial Advertising.” The ESPecialist 28 (2007): 87‒113.
Cortés de los Ríos, María Enriqueta, and Ana Corral Hernández. “The Promotion of Health and Beauty Tourism through Websites: A Linguistic Analysis.” Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2 (2016): 62‒83.
Danesi, Marcel. “Conceptual Errors in Second-language Learning.” Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar: A Volume in Honour of René Dirven. Eds. Sabine de Knop and Antoon de Rycker. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. 231‒256.
Doiz, Aintzane, and Carmen Elizari. “Metaphoric Competence and the Acquisition of Figurative Vocabulary in Foreign Language Learning.” Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada 13 (2013): 47‒82.
Espunya, Anna, and Patrick Zabalbeascoa. “Metaphorical Expressions in English and Spanish Stock Market Journalistic Texts.” Meaning Through Language Contrast. Eds. Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003: 159‒180.
Ghane, Maryam, and Mohammad Reza. “Developing Intermediate EFL Learners’ Metaphorical Competence through Exposure.” Theory and Practice in Language Studies 3 (2013): 135‒141.
Heidari, Adeleh, Azizollah Dabaghi, and Hossein Barati. “The Effect of Cognitive Function of Metaphors on Teaching Economic Terms to Iranian Economic Majors in ESP Courses.” The Journal of Teaching Language Skills 7 (2015): 87‒107.
Henderson, Willie. “Metaphor, Economics and ESP: Some Comments.” English for Specific Purposes 19 (1986): 167‒173.
Herrera, Honesto. “A Metaphor Corpus in Business Press Headlines.” Ibérica 15 (2008): 51‒69.
Herrera, Honesto, and Michael White. “Cognitive Linguistics and the Language Learning Process: A Case from Economics.” Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense 8 (2000): 55‒78.
Herrera, Honesto, and Michael White. Metaphor and Mills. Figurative Language in Business and Economics. Berlin and Boston: Mouton de Gruyter, 2012.
Hoang, Ha. “Metaphor and Second Language Learning: The State of the Field.” The Electronic Journal for English as a Second Language 18 (2014): 1‒27.
Kovecses, Zoltan. Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Lakoff, George. Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Lakoff, George. “The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor.” Metaphor and Thought. Ed. Andrew Ortony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993: 201‒255.
Langer, Tomáš. “Metaphors in Economics: Conceptual Mapping Possibilities in the Lectures of Economics.” Procedia Economics and Finance 25 (2015): 308‒317.
Lasagabaster, David. “El papel del inglés en el fomento del multilingüismo en la universidad.” Estudios de Lingüística Inglesa Aplicada 12 (2012): 14‒44.
Lindstromberg, Seth. “Metaphor and ESP: A Ghost in the Machine?” English for Specific Purposes 10 (1991): 207–225.
Littlemore, Jeannette, and Graham Low. “Metaphoric Competence, Second Language Learning, and Communicative Language Ability.” Applied Linguistics 27 (2006): 268‒294.
Low, Graham. “On Teaching Metaphor.” Applied Linguistics 9 (1988): 125–147.
Reehorst, Lucas. Pictorial and Multimodal Metaphor in American Editorial Cartoons on the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression of the 1930s. Master’s dissertation, University of Amsterdam, 2012.
Reddy, Michael J. “The Conduit Metaphor—A Case of Frame Conflict in our Language about Language.” Metaphor and Thought. Ed. Andrew Ortony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979: 284‒324.
Semino, Elena. Metaphor in Discourse, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Serón Ordóñez, Inmaculada. “La traducción de la metáfora en los textos financieros: estudio de caso.” Traducción y cultura: el referente cultural en la comunicación especializada. Ed. María García Torres. Málaga: Libros Encasa, 2005: 205‒250.
Sierra Ayala, Lina. “La negociación comercial: del coloquialismo a la metáfora.” Discourse Analysis and Terminology in Languages for Specific Purposes. Eds. Juan Carlos Palmer, Santiago Posteguillo, and Inmaculada Fortanet. Castellón: Universitat Jaume I, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2001: 207‒216.
Skorczynska, Hanna. “A Corpus-Based Evaluation of Metaphors in a Business English Textbook.” English for Specific Purposes 29 (2010): 30‒42.
Smith, Geoff. “How High Can a Dead Cat Bounce?: Metaphor and the Hong Kong Stock Market.” Hong Kong Papers in Linguistics and Language Teaching 18 (1995): 43‒57.
Steen, Gerard J. “Can Discourse Properties of Metaphor Affect Metaphor Recognition?” Journal of Pragmatics 36 (2004): 1295‒1313.
Tomoni, Bianca. “Conceptual Metaphors in Financial Discourse: The ‘Romanian Way’ of Thinking, Speaking and Writing Finances.” Selected Papers from UK-CLA Meetings 1 (2012): 146‒163.
Velasco, María Sol. “Metaphor and ESP: Metaphor as a Useful Device for Teaching L2 Business English Learners.” Ibérica 10 (2004): 115‒131.
Wan, Wan. “Constructing and Developing ESL Students’ Beliefs about Writing through Metaphor: An Exploratory Study.” Journal of Second Language Writing 23 (2014): 53‒73.
Wang, Huili, Tamara Runtsova, and Hongjiun Chen. “A Comparative Study of Metaphor in English and Russian Economic Discourse.” Text & Talk 33 (2013): 259‒288.
White, Michael. La metáfora en el tratamiento de la crisis monetaria en la prensa británica. PhD dissertation, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1996.
White, Michael. “The Use of Metaphor in Reporting Financial Market Transactions.” Cuadernos de Filología Inglesa 6 (1997): 233‒245.
White, Michael. “Metaphor and Economics: The Case of Growth.” English for Specific Purposes 22 (2003): 131‒151.
White, Michael. “Turbulence and Turmoil in the Market or the Language of a Financial Crisis.” Ibérica 7 (2004): 71‒86.
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Cortés de los Ríos, M. E., and M. del M. Sánchez Pérez. “Developing Business English Students’ Metaphorical Competence in Foreign Language Learning Higher Education Contexts”. ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies, no. 38, Dec. 2017, pp. 113-38, doi:10.24197/ersjes.38.2017.113-138.
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