“Structural and Semantic Properties of Phraseological Units”

In the field of Modern Languages and Linguistics, words are of great importance. A language’s phonology (study of how sounds are organized and used), morphology (study of the form and structure of words), syntax (study of the rules that govern sentence structure), semantics (study of meaning of words, sentences, and expressions), pragmatics (study of aspects of meaning and language use and context), and phonetics (study of human speech sounds) all play an important part in everyday life. These have a major impact in understanding the intent of what is spoken or heard. Due to the importance of communication, literary elements such as metaphors (which are defined as a figure of speech in which a word or phrase

How we form and describe a sentence plays a major role towards determine the meaning of the sentence. This results in making each sentence very important to structure correctly so as to harness the most powerful meaning from the words used on the sentence (Iny 2006). To understand how word structure affects a sentence, we shall examine 5 sentences from a paper “the Purpose of Government written by Anon. A. Moss.

pragmatics - knowledge that relates to how language is used appropriately within different social contexts.

English literature is with packed with many idioms. Idioms are commonly a word or phrase that differs from what its words denotation would suggest. In the short story “The Eyes Have it,” author, Philip Kindred Dick, represents English idioms wittingly and humorously through sarcastic metaphors, wry personification, and imagery of extracellular people. The story brings to the light an initiative way of learning figurative language by discreetly addressing the issue of over-exaggeration with both humor and mockery. Revolving around a husband and father, the story begins with the narrator reading a story of what he thinks is about “extracellular” people.

The purpose of this research is to discover which of the four strategies suggested by Baker (1992), used in translating idioms and idiomatic expressions from English into Persian in a Novel titled “Kite Runner”. This chapter deals with methodology, which is the materials chosen for the analysis, the instrumentation, the procedures adopted to collect data, design of the study and data analysis.

Idiom is a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words. Which basically means having a own saying. In the 4th paragraph, a phrase “jump down my throat” was used by the write to react angrily to something that someone said or did.

I asked what do those mean an the fact that they were able to point out that not only was it an idiom, but understood what it was in the text as well.

We use many euphemisms/colloquialisms in our everyday communication. A euphemism is a nicer word or phrase that is used to make a sensitive topic less harsh according to dictionary.com (1995). Colloquialisms are words or phrases that are used to express something other than the words literal meaning as stated by vocabulary.com (year unknown). Most of the time we hardly know we use such terms or phrases nor do we know where they originate from. The usage of euphemisms and colloquialisms is a worldwide tendency. Not only is it a universal thing but the wide variety of social groups/communities are very diverse in what phrases they use and how they use them. A certain word I use in many ways, the word I am going to base this writing off of, is a colloquialism. It is a word that is a very common use back in my home town, Kewaunee Wisconsin, and one I get very strange looks for here in North Dakota. In this paper I am going to describe to you: how I use balls and ballsy in conversation with my social groups and what many different meanings, the origins of the word, the overall reflection of the colloquialism along with other words that may have a hidden power.

Slang words are used a lot in today’s world .It is most properly used when people are communicating. It really peeve me when people use a lot of slang when they communicate, because it sometimes make it hard to understand them. The conversation would be a lot simpler without using slang words. For an example, some slang words use in the south of the United States someone up north might not never heard of or might be used differently. Most professional sitting

The use of idiomatic expressions is also a kind of intertextuality. In the page 35, the author uses a well-known

Key features of language include its words and their sub structures such as morphemes, graphemes and syllables at the writing level as well as reading or speaking, words, their meanings and contexts in which the words get spoken or read. Language has to be interpreted as a whole, and not just as the specific word. There must be an explicit pattern or structure. In order for language to be understood correctly, the meaning of words must be arranged in a given context. This is what constructs language; even though words are arbitrary themselves, in order to integrate as a language, they must be used in the appropriate context. This pre-established cultural context is what will enable effective communication. (Daniel Willingham, 2007, p. 1).

In the transition from Principles of Mathematics to “On Denoting”, the linguistic expressions that count as denoting phrases change because of the way that Russell views denoting phrases. In 1903, the determiners that are primarily considered are “all”, “every”, “any”, “a”, “some”, and “the”. In “On Denoting”, Russell introduces “no” and “the most primitive of denoting phrases” such as “everything”, “nothing”, and “something”. Consequently, in 1905 Russell analyzes denoting phrases not restricted to the six determiners and focuses analysis on denoting phrases such as “something is hungry”, “everything is hungry”, and “nothing is hungry”. Furthermore, in the denoting phrase “an Athenian studied with the author of The Republic”, the

In the third part, three pedagogical implications will be presented. In addition, a grammar activity and its theoretical rationale will be respectively reported in the fourth and fifth part before the final conclusion is displayed.

The word “idiom” is used to describe these forms of speech. Idioms are considered to be part of a nation’s culture, and idioms can make learning a foreign language quite challenging. Scholars have estimated American English to contain at least 25,000 idiomatic expressions. People learning a new language must memorize the meanings of these phrases like vocabulary, because the interpretations of idioms can be

In this research, the researcher discusses the figurative language based on Perrine’s perception. According to Perrine (1977:61-109), figurative language consists of 12 kinds, they are: simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, symbol, allegory, paradox, hyperbole/overstatement, understatement, and irony.