Bilingual Figurative Language Processing by Roberto R. Heredia PAPERBACK

Bilingual Figurative Language Processing\nby Roberto R. Heredia\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Roberto R. Heredia\nTitle: Bilingual Figurative Language Processing\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Bilingualism and multilingualism\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9781107609501\nISBN-10: 110760950X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nBilingual Figurative Language Processing is a timely book that provides a much-needed bilingual perspective to the broad field of figurative language. This is the first book of its kind to address how bilinguals acquire, store, and process figurative language, such as idiomatic expressions (such as kick the bucket), metaphors (such as lawyers are sharks), and irony, and how these tropes might interact in real .