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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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Building Bridges and Crossing Boundaries: Philosophy, Theology, and the Interruptions of Transcendence [PDF]
, 2014 Discussions about theological realism within analytic philosophy of religion, and the larger conversation between analytic and continental styles in philosophy of religion have generated relatively little interest among Catholic philosophers and ...
Rossi, Philip J.
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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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Normative data for idiomatic expressions [PDF]
, 2015 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Jambazova, Antonia A., Nordmann, Emily
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English Color Idioms and Arabic Color Idioms
Cihan 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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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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Journal 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 ...
Desai, Geetha, Chaturvedi, Santosh K.
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Programming Idioms for Transactional Events
, 2010 Transactional events (TE) are an extension of Concurrent ML (CML), a programming model for synchronous message-passing. Prior work has focused on TE's formal semantics and its implementation.
Alastair R. Beresford +8 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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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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