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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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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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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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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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Linguistic Idioms: the Creative Enunciative Practices Originated from Rhizomatic Ruptures [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2021 In this paper, the formation processes of linguistic idioms were studied using social semiology framework, specifically, the semiotic approach of Theo Van Leeuween: “discourse as the recontextualisation of social practice”.
Hedieh Haghighi +2 more
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Idioms in Syrian Arabic : a semantic and grammatical approach to the verb
, 2022 This contribution deals with idioms in vernacular Syrian Arabic, focusing on the verbal component, as well as their semantic and gramatical particularities.
Berlinches Ramos, Carmen
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Complainable matters: the use of idiomatic expressions in making complaints [PDF]
, 1988 Idiomatic, proverbial, and other figurative expressions are quite frequently employed by speakers in ordinary talk. Our analysis of idioms in naturally occurring conversations reveals that they are used, not randomly, but most notably when one speaker is
Drew, Paul, Holt, Elizabeth
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English Color Idioms and Arabic Color Idioms
, 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.
Azeez, Israa B. +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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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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