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Students' Familiarity with Metaphorical Collocations of time: A Preliminary Investigation

Metafora: Jurnal Lintas Disiplin Studi Metafora, 2022
The present study attempted to investigate EFL students' familiarity with collocations of time (i.e., verb + time and time + noun) in the English language.  As many as 42 students were enrolled in this study as participants in which 23 participants were fifth-semester students and 19 were seventh-semester students.
Ikmi Nur Oktavianti
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About the role of the development of collocations in the process of idiomatization (based on the German language)

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020
The interpretation of the concept of idiomatization and the related concept of phraseologization was performed by analyzing the process of metaphorical reinterpretation of the collocation (a phraseological unit with partial reinterpretation) resulting in
D.A. Bakhmatov
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The Metaphorical Use of Collocations: A Corpus-Based Study

International Journal of English Linguistics, 2019
The meanings of collocations, which have been accepted as an abstraction at the syntagmatic level, may have been defined by the way human beings conceptualize the world. The patterns in the use of the English word “contain” are summarized using the British National Corpus and an attempt is made to use conceptual metaphors to ...
Y. Cheng
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Strategies For Translating Metaphorical Collocations In The Holy Qur'an

JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN LINGUISTICS, 2014
A lot of research addresses to the definitions of collocations, their properties, and how they are different from other language forms like metaphors and idioms concerning the transparency of its adjacent constituents in contributing to meaning, both intra- and interlingually. Collocations in all languages including in Arabic, reflect conventional uses
Hilal Alshaje’a
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A CLEC-based Study on the Spatial Metaphor of HIGH Collocations

Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2019
Metaphor is conceived as understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another. Metaphor is pervasive not just in language, but also in our thoughts and actions. The conceptual system is metaphoric in nature. Previous studies on metaphor are done through linguistic researchers’ intuitive analysis.
Huiying Zhang, Weijie Zhou
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Spiritual and Medical Dimensions of the Language of Memory in Middle English Texts

Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology
This article examines the multifaceted understanding of memory in Middle English texts, exploring its medical and spiritual dimensions. Drawing on a corpus of Middle English texts from diverse genres, the study highlights the transition from early Anglo ...
Natalia Cziganj
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The Image of Russia in South Africa Media Discourse: Frames and Metaphors

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
Inter-BRICS cooperation is one of the priorities of Russian foreign policy. This indicates a need to understand perceptions of Russia’s image construal and mechanisms of its formation in BRICS’ media discourses.
Olga A. Solopova, Natalia N. Koshkarova
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BINOMIAL TERMINOLOGICAL COLLOCATIONS WITH AN ADJECTIVE-CONTAINING METAPHORICAL COMPONENT

International Scientific Conference, 2019
Mariia Teleky, Valentуnа Synytsia
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SEMANTIC PROSODY OF THE LEMMA VACCINE IN THE MEDIA TEXTS

Філологічні студії, 2021
This paper discusses the results of the corpus-based analysis of the semantic prosody of collocations with VACCINE in the broadsheet ‘The Guardian’. The corpus has been processed with the help of Sketch Engine.
О.С. Сіваєва
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Obraz pandemii w polskich i rosyjskich połączeniach wyrazowych

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2023
Since the beginning of 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has changed not only many aspects of everyday life, but also the lexical systems of languages. Polish and Russian have been enriched with numerous derivatives, loan words, as well as new collocations ...
Katarzyna Kuligowska
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