@inbook{35595bbad0d04ed0af107c8ef033d9b4,
title = "Cognitive Linguistics and expressing/ interpreting proverbs in a second language",
abstract = "This chapter relies on Cognitive/Cultural Linguistics assumptions to investigate proverb interpretation and expression among Akan-English bilinguals in Ghana. Cognitive linguistic approaches to studying proverbs, e.g., Lakoff and Turner (1989), emphasise the role cognitive models play in human conceptualisation, including proverb interpretation. Using fifty common proverbs in each of their two languages, participants were asked to interpret proverbs in one language and provide their conceptual equivalents in the other language. Findings suggest that while the bilinguals were better able to interpret proverbs whose interpretation needed less cultural competence in both languages, they appeared to rely on L1 cultural models to express/interpret L2 proverbs whose interpretation needed more cultural competence.",
keywords = "Akan, English, L2, metaphors, proverbs",
author = "Ansah, {Gladys Nyarko}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 John Benjamins Publishing Company.",
year = "2024",
doi = "10.1075/clscc.16.06ans",
language = "English",
series = "Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts",
publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing Company",
pages = "132--171",
booktitle = "Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts",
address = "Netherlands",
}