Idioms and Fixed Expressions in English Language Study Before 1800

Idioms and Fixed Expressions in English Language Study Before 1800
Author: Gabriele Knappe
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Total Pages: 696
Release: 2004
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

This study represents the first critical examination of the contexts and ways in which idioms and fixed expressions of two or more words (phraseological units) such as let sleeping dogs lie, try one's luck or at hand were collected, commented upon and also analysed by English language scholars between about 1440 and 1800. The large-scale investigation surveys theoretical and practical approaches including proverb studies, treatises on rhetoric and style, foreign-language teaching, collections of phrases, bilingual and monolingual lexicography, translation, universal and philosophical language schemes, shorthand systems and English grammar books. This pioneering study is intended to contribute to the formation of English historical phraseology as a new subdiscipline in English linguistics.

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs
Author: Richard A. Spears
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 1100
Release: 2006-02-03
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0071486852

Learn the language of Nebraska . . .and 49 other states With more entries than any other reference of its kind,McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs shows you how American English is spoken today. You will find commonly used phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, proverbial expressions, and clichés. The dictionary contains more than 24,000 entries, each defined and followed by one or two example sentences. It also includes a Phrase-Finder Index with more than 60,000 entries.

English Idioms in Use Advanced with Answers

English Idioms in Use Advanced with Answers
Author: Felicity O'Dell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2010-02-04
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521744296

English Idioms in use Advanced is a vocabulary book for advanced level learners. It is primarily designed as a self-study reference and practice text but it can also be used for classroom work.

A Syntactic Study of Idioms

A Syntactic Study of Idioms
Author: Anna Dąbrowska
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2018-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1527516784

Since the general tendencies of present-day English focus more on idiomatic usage, it seems to be worth paying attention to the role phraseological units play in a language. In the field of English phraseology, linguists have shown a constant interest in idioms. Undoubtedly, not only are idioms an important part of the language and culture of the society, but they also carry more impact than non-idiomatic expressions because of their close identification with a particular language and culture. It is difficult to speak or write English without using idioms, especially while describing one’s emotional or mental condition. Therefore, it is interesting and worthwhile to to analyse both the language of phraseological units and emotions. In other words, this book focuses not only on idioms, but also on one’s psychological condition. However, its purpose is neither to discuss the issues of idioms and emotions from the psychological point of view, nor provide a conceptual analysis of emotional metaphors. Instead, the book analyses idioms referring to psychological states in English from the perspective of syntax, focusing particularly both on the syntactic structure of this specific set of verbal psych-idioms, and on the constraints on the way they are built. Therefore, the most current studies, performed within the scope of the Phase Theory and the Idioms as Phases Hypothesis are chosen to address certain syntactic problems that idioms pose.

Little Red Book Idioms and Phrases

Little Red Book Idioms and Phrases
Author: Terry O'Brien
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9788129118110

Idiom from Latin: idioma, 'special property' is an expression, word or phrase that has a figurative meaning, this is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made. Word group becomes an idiomatic expression. The words develop a specialized meaning as an entity, as an idiom. When a speaker uses an idiom, the listener might mistake its actual meaning, if he or she has not heard this figure of speech before. In English the expression to go round the bend, would mean 'to go insane'. There are many such idiomatic expressions, A Curtain Lecture: Nagging by a wife at bedtime. A Dutch Wife: A bolster. Land of Nod: A state of sleep Let not idioms confuse those unfamiliar with them. Little Red Book of Idioms and Phrases will add to your vocabulary. Let's get into the ball park of idioms and phrases

1000 English Idioms and Phrases

1000 English Idioms and Phrases
Author: Muhammad Nabeel
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2017-09-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781976333828

Enhance your speaking skills and listening comprehension by learning English idiomatic expressions Welcome to another new exciting book of Coach Shane's English expression series. In this book, you would find 1000 English idioms and phrases with practical examples, dialogues/conversations and explanations. In this version, I made many changes compare to previous version. Because, I rearranged all English idiomatic expressions in alphabetically order, so you can use this book like an American idioms dictionary. Also, you would find some illustrated pictures in some places. In previous edition, I have received some complains, so that's why, I fixed many things in this edition. I tried to explain the English phrasal verbs and idioms in detail. You would know how to use them effectively. I picked up these common English expressions from sitcoms, movies, news, etc. Having learned these sayings, idioms and phrasal verbs, you would be able to understand movies, sitcoms, and news. I hope this book would be a great book for intermediate and advanced level ESL (English as a second language) peoples.

Idiomatic Creativity

Idiomatic Creativity
Author: Andreas Langlotz
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2006-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027293767

This book revisits the theoretical and psycholinguistic controversies centred around the intriguing nature of idioms and proposes a more systematic cognitive-linguistic model of their grammatical status and use. Whenever speakers vary idioms in actual discourse, they open a linguistic window into idiomatic creativity – the complex cognitive processing and representation of these heterogeneous linguistic constructions. Idiomatic creativity therefore raises two challenging questions: What are the cognitive mechanisms that underlie and shape idiom-representation? How do these mechanisms define the scope and limits of systematic idiom-variation in actual discourse? The book approaches these problems by means of a comprehensive cognitive-linguistic architecture of meaning and language and analyses them on the basis of corpus-data from the British National Corpus (BNC). Therefore, Idiomatic Creativity should be of great interest to cognitive linguists, phraseologists, corpus linguists, advanced students of linguistics, and all readers who are interested in the fascinating interplay of language and cognitive processing.This book has a companion website: www.idiomatic-creativity.ch.

In the Loop

In the Loop
Author: Office of Office of English Language Programs
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-02-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781508507383

In the Loop is divided into three parts: Part 1, "Idioms and Definitions"; Part 2, "Selected Idioms by Category"; and Part 3, "Classroom Activities." The idioms are listed alphabetically in Part 1. Part 2 highlights some of the most commonly used idioms, grouped into categories. Part 3 contains classroom suggestions to help teachers plan appropriate exercises for their students. There is also a complete index at the back of the book listing page numbers for both main entries and cross-references for each idiom.

Idioms Through Time and Technology

Idioms Through Time and Technology
Author: Iulian Mardar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN: 9781527576391

This game-changing, reader-friendly book provides a more precise definition of idioms, along with new classifications of them. It eliminates fixed phrases such as phrasal verbs, collocations, slang, and proverbs from the class of idioms, while including two major new categories: similidioms and irony-based idiom sentences (IBISes). As a matter of fact, similidioms (basically, idioms in the form of a simile) have been there probably since the beginning of our history as being capable of speaking, but they have not been revealed, until now. Starting from the observation that the production of idioms in any language is influenced by the technological advance of society, the book takes two of the most productive lexico-semantic categories of idioms in both English and Romanian--crazy and stupid idioms--and provides, for the first time, their classification according to their topic and pattern, in an intriguing contrastive approach. Well-documented and not lacking a subtle sense of humour, the book not only opens new perspectives for researchers in the field, but will also captivate the general reader interested in finding out more about the expressions they use every day.