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The Use of Equivalency and Translatability as Cognitive Tool in Correct Teaching and Learning English Idioms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Translation can be a very useful and helpful tool to the teachers and students who teach/learn idioms by opening the doors to better teaching and learning strategies.Moreover it is seen as an important part of learning process when dealing with idioms ...
Sylejmani Shabani, Vjona
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Idioms reflecting the interplay between cognition and emotion in cognitive behavioral therapy

open access: yesSichuan jingshen weisheng
BackgroundCognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a widely used and empirically supported psychotherapy method. In recent years, the localization of CBT related to culture has received increasing attention from Chinese scholars.
Xu Jingren   +7 more
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Idioms Used In Real Steel Movie [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The study was aimed to find out the forms, meanings, and speech function types of idioms in Reel Steal movie. The source of the data was taken from the script of Real Steel Movie. It is an Americanscience fictionsports drama filmthat was produced in 2011.
Abdah, Abdah
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Idiom Dalam Bahasa Dayak Suaid [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The issues discussed in this study were functions, meanings, and the uses of various types of idioms of Dayak Suaid Language. The aim of this study was to describe functions, meanings, and the uses of idioms of Dayak Suaid Language.
Amir, A. (Amriani)   +2 more
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A Descriptive Study on the Functions of Idioms with Magical Terminology in Building the Story of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The main aims of this study are to describe the idioms with magical terminology in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, to compare real English idioms and the idioms with magical terminology in the novel, and to describe the functions of the idioms
Fadhillah, Haris
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Idioms in the Series of “Gossip Girl Season 4”: Semantics Study

open access: yesJL3T (Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Teaching)
The research focused on the idioms used in “Gossip Girl Season 4” after watching the phenomena of idiom use in this television series. This research aims to to identify the types of idioms and to explain the meaning of the idioms found in the series ...
Tiefanny Dewi Puspita Taloko
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Investigating the Contextual Meaning of Idioms of Animals in Some Selected English Colloquial Utterances

open access: yesالأستاذ, 2019
English is rich of idioms. Learning idioms is considered an integral part of vocabulary learning. Idioms of animals are very popular in everyday English and ESL and EFL learners should encounter them .The problem of this study is due to the fact that ...
Mahmood Atiya Farhan
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Modeling the emergence of a new language: Naming Game with hybridization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In recent times, the research field of language dynamics has focused on the investigation of language evolution, dividing the work in three evolutive steps, according to the level of complexity: lexicon, categories and grammar.
A. Baronchelli   +5 more
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Teaching English idioms of happiness and sadness through conceptual metaphors in Vietnamese context

open access: yesHo Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Social Sciences, 2017
Idioms have long been regarded as a big challenge for EFL learners. With recent developments in cognitive linguistics, the method of teaching idioms has shifted from rote learning to raising the learner’s awareness of conceptual metaphors (CM).
Pham Thai Bao Ngoc
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Semantics of Idioms Containing Names of Body Parts in English, Slovak, and Hungarian (A Comparative Study) [PDF]

open access: yesActa Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
The main objective of the paper is to study idioms containing names of body parts in the English, Slovak, and Hungarian languages The traits of the selected idioms are investigated in terms of semantics The research sample, which includes fifty idioms
Marta Lacková, Brigita Bernáthová
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