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Deprivation of liberty or imprisonment? Metaphorical motivation of some terms in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania and their translation into English

International Journal of Legal Discourse, 2018
The paper sets out to examine the stability and motivation of collocations with the word laisvė ‘liberty, freedom’ in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania and tendencies of their rendering into English. The methodology of research relies on the
Inesa Šeškauskienė   +1 more
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Metaphorical collocations: A linguistic phenomenon at the intersection of metaphor and collocation

2022
Collocations have been in the focus of interest of theoreticians and practitioners for quite some time and within a variety of fields, such as applied linguistics, phraseology, lexicography, SLA, etc. Although no single definition of a collocation has been widely accepted, it is known that they are more or less fixed word combinations on the ...
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Discourse Analysis Of Collocations In Uzbek And English: Examples From Journalistic And Literary Styles

International Journal Of Literature And Languages
The article explains both the discourse functions of collocations and their stylistic nature in Uzbek and English journalistic and literary texts. The study shows how collocational patterns differ across the two languages and text types, bringing to ...
Adxamova Shirin Farxodjon qizi
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Teaching Collocations to Non-Arabic Speakers: Challenges and Implications

Insyirah: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa Arab dan Studi Islam
This study delves into the realm of collocations within Arabic language instruction for non-native speakers, focusing on the associated challenges, difficulties in comprehension, and the influence of their rhetorical and metaphorical intricacies on ...
Safa Mohammad Abu Ghalyoun   +2 more
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Collocational overlap can guide metaphor interpretation

2007
In this chapter, I argue that information about properties that are metaphorically projected between semantic domains is accessible in the form of collocational overlap between lexical items representing these domains. This shows that the statistical properties of natural language can guide human language users (and potentially any language-processing ...
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Collocational Metaphors: Between Creativity and Prefabrication

2017
Eco (Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language. Macmillan, London and Basingstoke, 1984: 87) insists that metaphor ‘defies every encyclopedic entry’. Nevertheless, metaphor merits an entry in discourse analysis because it is not merely one among the different tropes available to a language user, it is also a fundamental principle of all language users ...
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Phraseological Universals and Particulars: A Cross-Cultural Examination of English Expressions

Porta Universorum
Phraseological units (fixed multi-word expressions such as idioms and collocations) are linguistic tools that reflect both shared human experiences and distinct cultural worldviews.
Zarifa Sadigzade
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On the way to a multipolar world: metaphors in the BRICS summits declarations

Полис. Политические исследования
The main focus of the research is the use of the “path” metaphor in the BRICS grouping political discourse. The significance of the research is due to extralinguistic and linguistic factors, among them are the growing role of BRICS on the world stage and
N. N. Koshkarova   +2 more
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Stylistic and pragmatic markers of informal anthroponymy in contemporary Ukrainian discourse

Philological Review
The present article continues a series of studies devoted to the emergence, motivational basis, structure, derivational specificity, and characteristics of nicknames functioning as objects of secondary nomination.
Viktoriia Shymanska
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The ETYMOLOGY OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS IN THE ROMANIAN LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES

Analele Universităţii "Dunărea de Jos" din Galaţi. Fascicula XXIV Lexic comun / lexic specializat
The author ascertains that in „Dicţionarul limbii române” (The Romanian Language Dictionary), drawn up under the patronage of the Romanian Academy and published between 1913 and 2005, there is a lack of consistency in indicating the etymology of various ...
Stelian Dumistrăcel
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