Cultures & Languages Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-Linguistic Model of Idiom-Representation And Idiom-Variation in English (902722370X)

Like Book123?! Give us +1

From the Introduction: This book addresses a central problem in phraseological and linguistic analy- sis. The creative structure and the creative use of idioms. Let me therefore start creatively, with a highly speculative metaphorical hypothesis: idioms are to lin- guists and language users what the Cheshire cat is to Alice. Idioms are peculiar linguistic constructions that have raisedmany eyebrows in linguistics and often confuse newcomers to a language. Indeed, the expression grin like a Cheshire cat is an idiom. More precisely, it is an idiomatic comparison whose motiva- tion has become opaque: as the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)indicates,the phrase is of undetermined origin. So why should people who grin broadly grin like a Cheshire cat?; after all, what, precisely, is a Chesire cat? These questions point to the fact that according to the perception of most speakers of English this expression behaves like its allegorical incarnation in Alice in Wonderland. The idiomatic meaning of the expression, ‘grin broadly,’ leaves us with a grin without a cat. This is what makes this idiom curious...

Buy Book at Lowest Price on Amazon

Rating:
2.5 out of 5 by Book123

Download Links
Server	Status
Direct Download Link 1	Alive
Direct Download Link 2	Alive
Download Link 1	Alive
Buy This Book at Best Price >>

Like this article?! Give us +1:

	Cultures & Languages Advanced Vocabulary and Idiom B.J. Thomas “Advanced Vocabulary and Idiom" Longman ELT (May 1, 1989) \| ISBN: 0340504412 \| 128 pages \| Djvu \| 4,5 Mb
	Cultures & Languages Literature (The New Critical Idiom) P. Widdowson"Literature (The New Critical Idiom)" Publisher: Routledge \| 240 Pages \| ISBN: 0415169143 \| PDF \| 30.3MBLiterature, the latest volume in the highly successful New Critical Idiom series, is at once a compact mine of information ...
	Family & Home Sexuality (The New Critical Idiom) Sexuality (The New Critical Idiom)Routledge \| 1997-03-25 \| ISBN: 0415084946 \| 248 pages \| PDF \| 2,2 MBSexuality is generally seen as perhaps the most basic of human forces, a wholly natural feature of life. In Sexuality, this assumption is ...
	Science/Engineering Myth New Critical Idiom Marc Aerts, Geert Molenberghs, Louise M. Ryan, Helena Geys “Myth New Critical Idiom" Routledge \| 2009-02-20 \| ISBN: 0415442419 \| 240 pages \| PDF \| 2,5 MB From Shakespeare's "The Tempest" to Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale", from Coppola's ...
	Study Advanced Vocabulary & Idiom B. J Thomas, "Advanced Vocabulary & Idiom" Addison Wesley \|1996-01-15 \| ISBN:0175571260 \| 128 Pages \| Djvu \| 4,2 MB Advanced Vocabulary and Idiom is designed to teach, test and practise the vocabulary of EFL students at a level leading ...
	Study The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus Evidence on English Past and Present (Studies in Language Variation) Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta, Minna Korhonen, "The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus Evidence on English Past and Present (Studies in Language Variation)"John Benjamins Publishing Co \| 2008-12-30 \| ISBN: 90272348 ...

Share this page with your friends now!
Text link
Forum (BBCode)
Website (HTML)

DISCLAIMER:

This site does not store Cultures & Languages Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-Linguistic Model of Idiom-Representation And Idiom-Variation in English on its server. We only index and link to Cultures & Languages Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-Linguistic Model of Idiom-Representation And Idiom-Variation in English provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete Cultures & Languages Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-Linguistic Model of Idiom-Representation And Idiom-Variation in English if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.

	Cultures & Languages Advanced Vocabulary and Idiom B.J. Thomas “Advanced Vocabulary and Idiom" Longman ELT (May 1, 1989) \| ISBN: 0340504412 \| 128 pages \| Djvu \| 4,5 Mb
	Cultures & Languages Literature (The New Critical Idiom) P. Widdowson"Literature (The New Critical Idiom)" Publisher: Routledge \| 240 Pages \| ISBN: 0415169143 \| PDF \| 30.3MBLiterature, the latest volume in the highly successful New Critical Idiom series, is at once a compact mine of information ...
	Family & Home Sexuality (The New Critical Idiom) Sexuality (The New Critical Idiom)Routledge \| 1997-03-25 \| ISBN: 0415084946 \| 248 pages \| PDF \| 2,2 MBSexuality is generally seen as perhaps the most basic of human forces, a wholly natural feature of life. In Sexuality, this assumption is ...
	Science/Engineering Myth New Critical Idiom Marc Aerts, Geert Molenberghs, Louise M. Ryan, Helena Geys “Myth New Critical Idiom" Routledge \| 2009-02-20 \| ISBN: 0415442419 \| 240 pages \| PDF \| 2,5 MB From Shakespeare's "The Tempest" to Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale", from Coppola's ...
	Study Advanced Vocabulary & Idiom B. J Thomas, "Advanced Vocabulary & Idiom" Addison Wesley \|1996-01-15 \| ISBN:0175571260 \| 128 Pages \| Djvu \| 4,2 MB Advanced Vocabulary and Idiom is designed to teach, test and practise the vocabulary of EFL students at a level leading ...
	Study The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus Evidence on English Past and Present (Studies in Language Variation) Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen, Paivi Pahta, Minna Korhonen, "The Dynamics of Linguistic Variation: Corpus Evidence on English Past and Present (Studies in Language Variation)"John Benjamins Publishing Co \| 2008-12-30 \| ISBN: 90272348 ...

Book123

Categories

Share With Friends

Archive by Date

Search Tag

Newest

Useful Links

Cultures & Languages Idiomatic Creativity: A Cognitive-Linguistic Model of Idiom-Representation And Idiom-Variation in English

Related Articles

DISCLAIMER:

Comments (0) All