Students’ Readiness to Use Metonymy in Communication Case Study of Master Students at the Department of English at Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi-Ouzou
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Date
2025
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
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This dissertationis a descriptive research study which aims to explorestudents’ readiness to use metonymy in communication and identify the challenges they face when dealing with metonymical expressions..To proceed with inquiry, we applied a mixed method combining the qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection and analysis. We selected randomly 36 Algerian Master students of English studying in the department of English at Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi-Ouzou to whom we distributed questionnaires during June, 2024. The questionnaire composed of quantitative and qualitative questions analyzed quantitatively by using a statistical package (SPSS) and qualitatively by using content analysis. The results of the study reveal that the majority of the students have notshown readiness to use metonymy because of thechallenges in understanding and dealing with metonymy.
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57p. ; (+CD-Rom)
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Students, Readiness, English Language, Metonymy, Mixed method
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Language and Communication