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Idiomatic expressions used by the Acehnese novelist Arafat Nur in the novel Tanah Surga Merah
Studies in English Language and Education, 2023 Writers as language users are fully aware that idioms are powerful tools to get messages across. This research is to examine idiomatic expressions in Arafat Nur’s novel Tanah Surga Merah (2017).
Chairina Nasir, Azzah Ufairah
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Proceedings 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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Linguistik Online, 2006 In this paper we introduce results from two studies on frequency and knowledge of German idioms. The aim of the first study was to determine the frequency of idioms in a written language corpus, and in the second study the native speakers knowledge of ...
Erla Hallsteinsdóttir +2 more
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Foods, 2020 It is known that idioms, proverbs, and slogans can become integrated into feelings like irritation, contemptuous attitudes, and even anger and disgust. Idioms making reference to insects, spiders, and other invertebrates occur in all languages, but they ...
Victor Benno Meyer-Rochow, Aimo Kejonen
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Die kognitiv-metaphorische Motiviertheit beim Erlernen von Idiomen am Beispiel eines Aufgabenblattes
Linguistik Online, 2011 The cognitive metaphorical motivation of idioms is one of the most treated subjects in English-language articles about teaching of idioms. In German-language phraseodidactic literature it is a rather rare phenomenon.
Tamás Kispál
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On the usage of pythonic idioms [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software, 2018 Developers discuss software architecture and concrete source code implementations on a regular basis, be it on question-answering sites, online chats, mailing lists or face to face. In many cases, there is more than one way of solving a programming task.
Carol V. Alexandru +5 more
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A Comparison of the Origin of Idioms in Mandarin and Indonesian
Humaniora, 2016 In language, idioms can function as stand-alone semantic units because they contain whole concepts. These concepts, formed from human thought, can be explored to discover cultural elements which served as the basis for idiom creation.
Huang Haiyan +2 more
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Idioms with the Lexemes mouth in English and usta in Serbian: A Cognitive Approach [PDF]
Filolog, 2018 This paper explores the idioms in the English and Serbian language, which contain the lexemes mouth and usta. The idioms are analysed from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, with the main aim of finding the cognitive mechanisms that underlie these
Jelena Lj. Biljetina
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Anthropocentrism as the Semantic Basis of Phraseological Units (Based on English Idioms) [PDF]
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2016 The aim of the paper is to prove that English idioms are anthropocentric in their semantics. In order to achieve this aim, the method of continuous sampling from various lexicographic sources has been used to compile a representative corpus of 1200 ...
E.E. Vedmanova, N.V. Kulikova
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Afghan EFL students’ difficulties and strategies in learning and understanding English idioms
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2020 The study investigated the attitude of Afghan undergraduate EFL students towards the importance of learning English idioms, sources of difficulties in learning and understanding them, and strategies used to learn and understand idioms.
Sayeed Naqibullah Orfan
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