David O'Reilly: Evaluating and comparing the creative productions of L2 and L1 language users

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David O’Reilly: ‘Good’ extensions of re-literalised idioms: Evaluating and comparing the creative productions of L2 and L1 language users.

In this video David O’Reilly gives a brief introduction to his research on second language learners' ability to creatively extent the literal sense of phrases (e.g., "I'd been sitting on the fence about it for so long that..."). Further details can be found in the poster he presented at The Creative Power of Metaphor Conference, March 2019.

This video was filmed at The Creative Power of Metaphor conference held at Worcester College, Oxford on 29-30 March 2019. The conference was organised by Creative Multilingualism, a research programme funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.