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Pidgin English proverbs as a source of structural nativization in Nigerian English

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 166-183, March-June 2025.
Abstract In this paper, we explore the role of Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) proverbs in language contact settings and their impact on the development of idiomatic phraseology in Nigerian English (NgE). In a set of 100 NPE proverbs, we identified lexical keywords that served as anchors for searches in the large‐scale Nairaland corpus to detect ...
Marcus Callies, Folajimi Oyebola
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Lexicography of Paroemias: The Problem of Interpretation (Based on the Russian Language)

Вестник Северного (Арктического) федерального университета: Серия «Гуманитарные и социальные науки»
The article describes the methods of interpreting paroemias in modern phraseological and proverb dictionaries. The paper aims to identify the principles of such interpretation. It is known that determining the meaning of a paroemia, which is presented in
Olga N. Ivanishcheva
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Polyfunctionality of the English Quantitative Words [PDF]

, 2013
The article in question considers the functioning of quantitative units, their language and speech aspects. Introduction focuses upon the major items of paper - definition of numerals, words of weight and measure, aims, methods of investigation, empiric ...
Shvachko, Svitlana Oleksiivna, Швачко, Светлана Алексеевна, Швачко, Світлана Олексіївна   +2 more
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Negative politeness and no worries in Australian English

World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 253-268, March-June 2025.
Abstract This paper explores how a distinctive politeness token can establish itself in a variety of world English by virtue of its pragmatics. It examines the usage of no worries as a negative politeness thanking response in a large multigenerational corpus of informal dialogues by men and women recorded at the University of Western Australia (UWA ...
Pam Peters, Isabelle Burke
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Specifics of computer discourse translation from English into Russian [PDF]

, 2017
Relevance of the problem under study is caused by need of further development of science and technology in Russia and abroad and it inevitably puts on the agenda the issue of information exchange in the field of scientific and technological achievements.
Baranova, Alfiya R., Fahrutdinov, Rail R., Sigacheva, Natalya A.   +2 more
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Christian Platonism, Transvalued: Rethinking Anselm's Formula

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 38-53, January 2025.
Abstract Anselm's Proslogion developed its famous argument through meditation on a single formula: ‘Now we believe that You are something than which nothing greater can be thought’. This article aims to re‐enact such a meditation under changed conditions, bringing out a different sense of metaphysical dependence.
Philip Goodchild
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Actualization of stylistically charged of phraseological units in poetry of V. Vysotsky

Неофилология, 2015
It is devoted to studies of the specifics of stylistically marked phraseological units functioning in the works by V.S. Vysotsky. V.S. Vysotsky’s idiostyle is characterized by the use of stable reproducible combinations – set phrases, aphorisms, sayings,
Luiza Ravshanovna SIDORKOVA
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New ways of developing Russian avant-garde idioms: a corpus-based approach

Russian Language Studies
The research studies the functioning of Russian avant-garde idioms, a unique group in the lexical-phraseological system of the Russian language, which formed at the beginning of the 20th century in language experiments by of the early avant-garde ...
Irina V. Zykova
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Linguocultural approach to the inner form and actual meaning of phraseological units with a gastronomic component (based on English, Russian, and Chechen)

Philology. Theory & Practice
The study aims to identify common and distinctive (specific to culture and language) features of gastronomic phraseological units in Chechen, Russian, and English using parallel corpus data within the linguocultural paradigm. We analyzed each selected actual meaning of phraseological units, their inner form, and cultural connotation. Based on the data,
Markha Timurovna Usmanova, Seda Isaevna Tasueva   +1 more
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The Role Phraseology in Teaching and Learning English [PDF]

, 2022
Teaching phraseology in foreign teaching methodology plays a significant role in forming vocabulary and lingua-cultural competence of students as phraseological units encapsulate a national, country’s cultural outlook.
Amirkulova, N. A.
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