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Idioms of Distress [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, 2017
ABSTRACTThe presentations of psychosocial distress and cultural conflicts are often bodily symptoms, especially in traditional societies and village backgrounds. These might not meet the criteria of the current psychiatric diagnostic systems. Sociocultural milieu contributes to the unique presentations of the stress in the form of idioms of distress ...
Santosh K. Chaturvedi, Geetha Desai
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English Color Idioms and Arabic Color Idioms

open access: yesCihan University-Erbil Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023
This study is an attempt to make a comparative study between Arabic and English regarding color idioms. It tends to make a comparison by shedding light on similarities between Arabic and English regarding Color idioms. Eighteen color idioms have been chosen; ten from English and nine from Arabic.
Huda Y. Abdulwahid   +2 more
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Chinese Idiom Paraphrasing

open access: yesTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
AbstractIdioms are a kind of idiomatic expression in Chinese, most of which consist of four Chinese characters. Due to the properties of non-compositionality and metaphorical meaning, Chinese idioms are hard to be understood by children and non-native speakers. This study proposes a novel task, denoted as Chinese Idiom Paraphrasing (CIP).
Jipeng Qiang   +6 more
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Idioms

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter first sketches basic empirical properties of idioms. The state of the art before the emergence of HPSG is presented, followed by a discussion of four types of HPSG approaches to idioms. A section on future research closes the discussion.
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The idiom principle revisited [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Linguistics, 2014
© 2014 Oxford University Press 2014. John Sinclair's Idiom Principle famously posited that most texts are largely composed of multi-word expressions that 'constitute single choices' in the mental lexicon. At the time that assertion was made, little actual psycholinguistic evidence existed in support of that holistic, 'single choice', view of formulaic ...
Anna Siyanova (8509929)   +1 more
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Translating idioms [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics -, 1998
This paper discusses the treatment of fixed word expressions developed for our ITS-2 Frenc-English translation system. This treatment makes a clear distinction between compounds-i.e. multiword expressions of X0-level in which the chunks are adjacent-and idiomatic phrases-i.e.
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Mining idioms in the wild

open access: yesProceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Practice, 2022
Existing code repositories contain numerous instances of code patterns that are idiomatic ways of accomplishing a particular programming task. Sometimes, the programming language in use supports specific operators or APIs that can express the same idiomatic imperative code much more succinctly.
Sivaraman, Aishwarya   +4 more
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Idioms in Colours [PDF]

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2010
The names of colours are frequently encountered in idioms. In fact, idioms are to a great extent a product of culture. The meaning of idioms is often based on particular ideas and perceptions specific to a given nation and culture. Being universalities in the structure of a language the elements of idioms are, at the same time, the most striking ...
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Caucasian idioms [PDF]

open access: yesScottish Geographical Magazine, 1888
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An International Idiom

open access: yesThe Journal of American Folklore, 1890
Mode of access: Internet.
F. B., Horatio Hale
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