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Understanding idioms and idiomatic expressions in context: a look at idioms found in an Irish soap opera

open access: yesTeanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2019
This paper looks at idioms drawn from a corpus of soap opera and compares their communicative functions to those performed by idioms in corpora of naturally-occurring conversation.
María Palma Fahey
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Metalinguistic Awareness in the EFL Classroom and Beyond: Exploring the Potential of Translation Tasks

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Current trends encouraging a move away from monolingual teaching have sparked a renewed interest in the role of translation in language instruction. Yet, there are few theoretically and empirically grounded proposals regarding specific uses of translation in the language classroom.
Monika Bader   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguo-pragmatic features of non-equivalent idioms of biblical origin in russian and english

open access: yesRussian Language Studies, 2015
This article is devoted to the contrastive phraseological analysis of idioms of biblical origin in the Russian and English languages. Biblical idioms are regarded as precedent phenomena and means of speech influence. In particular, the article focuses on
E Vladimirovna Reunova
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IDIOMS IN THE PROSE WRITINGS OF TURKISH AUTHORS FROM NORTH MACEDONIA

open access: yesTrakia Journal of Sciences
Over centuries, the Macedonian language, influenced by Turkish, has absorbed not only Turkish words and phrases but also numerous idioms. Some of these idioms were translated word for word, some were adapted by translating a single word ...
H. Skuka
doaj   +1 more source

A Country That Never Sleeps? A Web Scrapping Analysis of the 24‐h Economy Policy in Ghana

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In light of revitalizing Ghana's economic landscape through sustainable job creation underpinned by 24‐h operations across all key sectors, the National Democratic Congress proposed the ‘24‐h economy’ policy proposal. This study employs the web‐scraping technique through text mining and python codes to analyse 1820 comments from Facebook, X ...
Pius Gamette   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Translation and Cross‐Cultural Adaptation of Sydney Swallow Questionnaire in Urdu and Its Psychometric Properties Among Post‐Stroke Dysphagia Patients

open access: yesWorld Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives Self‐rating questionnaires provide a detailed overview of the symptomatic severity of post‐stroke dysphagia in the geriatric population; such assessment tools or the subjective evaluation of post‐stroke dysphagia are unavailable for Urdu‐speaking patients.
Syeda Amna Ejaz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence in Voice Disorders: Current Landscape, Emerging Applications and Future Directions

open access: yesWorld Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To provide a comprehensive review of the current landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in voice disorder, with emphasis on emerging applications, limitations, and future directions for clinical integration. Methods Literature review.
Rachel B. Kutler, Anaïs Rameau
wiley   +1 more source

Idioms

open access: yes, 2009
Encyclopedia article on idioms and idiomatic phrases.
openaire   +1 more source

Bridging Leadership Development and Hip‐Hop Culture: Empowering Black Students Through Culturally Responsive Educational Approaches

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 89-95, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Hip‐hop music and culture have existed for decades in the United States. Since the 1970s, five critical elements have been defined as parts of hip‐hop culture: the MC (oral), the DJ (aural), graffiti (visual), knowledge (mental), and breakdancing (physical).
Jesse R. Ford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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