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Validation of the French version of the Multiple Sclerosis Intimacy and Sexuality Questionnaire 15 Tools which help nurse for assessing the effect of perceived multiple sclerosis symptoms on sexual activity and satisfaction

open access: yesNursing Open, Volume 10, Issue 2, Page 570-578, February 2023., 2023
Abstract Aim To validate a French version of the Multiple Sclerosis Intimacy and Sexuality Questionnaire 15 which examines patients’ perception of the effect of multiple sclerosis symptoms on their sexual activity. Methods After completing a translation/re‐translation process to ensure linguistic and content validity, the Multiple Sclerosis Intimacy ...
Sandrine Lefebvre   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese Idiom Paraphrasing

open access: yesTransactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
AbstractIdioms are a kind of idiomatic expression in Chinese, most of which consist of four Chinese characters. Due to the properties of non-compositionality and metaphorical meaning, Chinese idioms are hard to be understood by children and non-native speakers. This study proposes a novel task, denoted as Chinese Idiom Paraphrasing (CIP).
Jipeng Qiang   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Culture-bound syndromes, idioms of distress, and cultural concepts of distress: New directions for an old concept in psychological anthropology

open access: yesTranscultural Psychiatry, 2019
This issue of Transcultural Psychiatry showcases some recent work on idioms of distress – the latest in a long line of anthropological research concerned with cross-cultural concepts and experiences of distress.
B. Kaiser, Lesley Jo Weaver
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preserving cultural heritage by teaching idioms to young learners as part of imaginative language in Setswana

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Childhood Education, 2016
Teachers need creative strategies and techniques when teaching idioms in Setswana. However, they do not know what idioms are nor are they aware that through idioms cultural heritage can be preserved and that idioms can be taught as part of imaginative ...
Refilwe Ramagoshi, Ina Joubert
doaj   +1 more source

Modulation in the Idiom Translation from English to Indonesian in the Novel Rich People Problems

open access: yesSALEE, 2023
Modulation ​​is seen as two different points of view in a similar situation. This research describes the modulation in the translation of idioms in the novel Rich People Problems.
Lutfi Efendi, Tofan Dwi Hardjanto
doaj   +1 more source

English Color Idioms and Arabic Color Idioms

open access: yesCihan 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
openaire   +2 more sources

The idiom principle revisited [PDF]

open access: yesApplied Linguistics, 2014
© 2014 Oxford University Press 2014. John Sinclair's Idiom Principle famously posited that most texts are largely composed of multi-word expressions that 'constitute single choices' in the mental lexicon. At the time that assertion was made, little actual psycholinguistic evidence existed in support of that holistic, 'single choice', view of formulaic ...
Anna Siyanova (8509929)   +1 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Variability in the Syntax of Idioms

open access: yesELOPE, 2017
Given that the meaning of idioms is not predictable from the literal meaning of their parts, we can broadly define idioms as expressions with a non-compositional interpretation.
Marko Hladnik
doaj   +1 more source

Idioms of resilience among cancer patients in urban South Africa: An anthropological heuristic for the study of culture and resilience

open access: yesTranscultural Psychiatry, 2019
Despite the large body of research on idioms of distress in anthropology and transcultural psychiatry, few scholars have examined the concepts that people use to describe social and psychological resilience.
Andrew Wooyoung Kim   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How many idioms are there in English?

open access: yes, 2020
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Lynn Grant, P. Nation
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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