Novel Metaphor Recognition, Interpretation and Construction: Barriers Face Kurds as Non-native English Speakers

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Bikhtiyar O. Fattah

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This study which is titled ‘Novel Metaphor Recognition and Interpretation:   Barriers Face Kurds as Non-native English speakers’ considers the recognition and the interpretation process difficulty of English novel metaphors. Novel metaphor is one of the most problematic types of metaphor in which its creation, recognition and interpretation usually require a higher level of efficiency. This sort of metaphor is highly connected with personal established conceptual systems which probably cause misunderstanding among interactants: native and non-native ones. This study aims at identifying novel metaphor, determining the nature of problems that Kurds as non-native English speakers face in recognizing novel metaphors in English. Thus, it would be helpful for both non-native English learners and speakers to improve their English comprehension and construction competence. The current study makes use of both quantitative and qualitative approach in the process of data analysis; and it has come up with the conclusion that the insufficiency in English communicative language competence, cognitive analysis proficiency, and background knowledge are three main problems in the process of recognizing and interpreting novel metaphors.

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Bikhtiyar O. Fattah, Department of English, Faculty of Education, Koya University, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Bikhtiyar Omar Fattah is an assistant professor of Linguistics & English Language at the Department of English Language/ Faculty of Education/ Koya University.
He was born on September 1, 1981 in Koya / Erbil. He got B.A. degree at Sallahaddin University, and got M.A. at Koya University. He attended and participated in many national and international English language and English linguistic courses, conferences, workshops and training courses; namely at: Huddersfield University, Sheffield Hallam University, Loughborough University/ the United Kingdom; Virginia Tech / USA; and Bilkent University/ Turkey, in addition to the almost all university in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.

His research interests focus on Sociolinguistics, Discourses Analysis, Politeness and Applied Linguistics. He is a member of the Politeness Research Group.  

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