A Study of L2 Learner’s Knowledge of Metonymic Sense of“Hand”  

作　　者：MA Yiting GAO Wencheng 

机构地区：[1]University of Shanghai for Science and Technology,Shanghai,China

出　　处：《Sino-US English Teaching》2020年第9期259-265,共7页中美英语教学（英文版）

摘　　要：Based on a learner corpus Chinese Learner English Corpus(CLEC)and a native speaker corpus Freiburg Brown Corpus of American English(FROWN),this research investigates the differences between Chinese learners of English and English native speakers in their knowledge of the metonymic senses of human body word“hand”.Two research questions are raised:(1)What are the features that distinguish Chinese English learners from English native speakers?(2)What are the rules in learners’learning of English metonymic senses?In order to answer these two questions,this paper has investigated the frequencies of the identified senses in two corpora of FROWN and CLEC,and the sequence of learning metonymic senses.The results show that Chinese learner’s knowledge of metonymic senses of“hand”is restricted to fixed phrases,especially verb phrases.It is also found that in the process of English learning,learners do have some preferences for basic sense,and then they learn peripheral senses by reciting some fixed phrases.

关 键 词：metonymic sense of“hand” FROWN CLEC type of sense SEQUENCE 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]