An Empirical Study on Chinese Advanced EFL Learners' Semantic Intuition about the Relationship of Literal Meaning with “What-Is-Said”

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-8921.2019.05.007

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LIU Longgen, ZHU Xiaozhen, HUO Wenjing. An Empirical Study on Chinese Advanced EFL Learners' Semantic Intuition about the Relationship of Literal Meaning with “What-Is-Said”[J]. Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies, 2019, 19(05): 50-62.

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