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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.
Aishwarya Sivaraman   +4 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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Phraseologisches Optimum für Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Ein Vorschlag auf der Basis von Frequenz- und Geläufigkeitsuntersuchungen

open access: yesLinguistik 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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Could Western Attitudes towards Edible Insects Possibly be Influenced by Idioms Containing Unfavourable References to Insects, Spiders and other Invertebrates?

open access: yesFoods, 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

open access: yesLinguistik 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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A Comparison of the Origin of Idioms in Mandarin and Indonesian

open access: yesHumaniora, 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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On the usage of pythonic idioms [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings 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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Analyze Language and Cultural Characteristics of Chinese Idioms Based on Malay Idioms

open access: yes, 2023
<p>Idioms are a unique vocabulary unit of the national language. It not only integrates the essence of the language, but also summarizes the wisdom and experience of the people for thousands of years.
Norlida Razali, Lee Hau
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Idioms with the Lexemes mouth in English and usta in Serbian: A Cognitive Approach [PDF]

open access: yesFilolog, 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]

open access: yesУченые 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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