I'm not sure if I'd be polluting the data by answering those questions as I don't know if the masters student would consider me monolingual. For the purposes of this experiment, at what point is it no longer possible for a native speaker who studies one or more languages at school to properly describe himself or herself as monolingual? Chris On 25/07/2013 09:36, Antonio Torrisi wrote: > > Hi All, > > Apologies for cross posting, but I thought some of you would be > interested in an experiment on the *interpretation of metaphors* by > monolingual, English native speakers, planned by Giulio Dulcinati, who > is currently studying a Masters in Psychology at UCL. > > In order to gather accurate data for the experiment he would like to > encourage as many English native speakers as possible to take part in > the short experiment (5-10 minutes long). > > As metaphors play an important role in Science Communication I thought > this could be of some interest for the psci-com community and I send > you the link to the experiment for those who would like to take part > in it: > > https://uclpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_e3rSItD2WsNlbz7 > > Please, share with your contacts. > > Thank you very much for your attention, > > Antonio Torrisi > > ********************************************************************** > > Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> with one of the following messages > (ignoring text in brackets) > > • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • > set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) • signoff psci-com (to > leave the list) • Subscribe here > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com > > Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] > <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Small print and JISCMail > acceptable use policy > https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print > > ********************************************************************** > ********************************************************************** Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • Subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print **********************************************************************