Widespread Idioms In Europe And Beyond

Author : Elisabeth Piirainen,József Attila Balázsi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Figures of speech
ISBN : LCCN:2012013834

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Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond: Lexicon of common figurative units by Elisabeth Piirainen,József Attila Balázsi Pdf

This groundbreaking book in theoretical and empirical phraseology research looks at Europe's linguistic situation as a whole, including 74 European and 17 non-European languages. The occurrence of idioms that actually share the same lexical and semantic structure across a large number of languages has never been demonstrated so clearly before Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond. This book answers significant questions regarding hitherto vague ideas about the phraseological similarities between European languages and their cultural foundation, ranging from intertextuality, aspects of European mental, material, and social culture, to culturally based perception of natural phenomena. This inventory, which analyzes 190 out of a total of 380 widespread idioms and includes maps, is valuable for academic teaching and further research in the fields of phraseology and figurative language, areal and contact linguistics, and European cultural studies.

Author : Elisabeth Piirainen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1015121107

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Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond by Elisabeth Piirainen Pdf

Author : Elisabeth Piirainen
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : IND:30000148526472

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Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond by Elisabeth Piirainen Pdf

This groundbreaking book in theoretical and empirical phraseology research looks at Europe's linguistic situation as a whole, including 74 European and 17 non-European languages. The occurrence of idioms that actually share the same lexical and semantic structure across a large number of languages has never been demonstrated so clearly before Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond. This book answers significant questions regarding hitherto vague ideas about the phraseological similarities between European languages and their cultural foundation, ranging from intertextuality, aspects of European mental, material, and social culture, to culturally based perception of natural phenomena. This inventory, which analyzes 190 out of a total of 380 widespread idioms and includes maps, is valuable for academic teaching and further research in the fields of phraseology and figurative language, areal and contact linguistics, and European cultural studies.

Author : Elisabeth Piirainen,József Attila Balázsi
Publisher : International Folkloristics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Figures of speech
ISBN : 1433129698

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Lexicon of Common Figurative Units by Elisabeth Piirainen,József Attila Balázsi Pdf

This groundbreaking book in theoretical and empirical phraseology research looks at Europe's linguistic situation as a whole, including 74 European and 17 non-European languages. The occurrence of idioms that actually share the same lexical and semantic structure across a large number of languages has never been demonstrated so clearly before Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond. This book answers significant questions regarding hitherto vague ideas about the phraseological similarities between European languages and their cultural foundation, ranging from intertextuality, aspects of European mental, material, and social culture, to culturally based perception of natural phenomena. This inventory, which analyzes 190 out of a total of 380 widespread idioms and includes maps, is valuable for academic teaching and further research in the fields of phraseology and figurative language, areal and contact linguistics, and European cultural studies.

Author : Sylviane Granger,Fanny Meunier
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027232466

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Phraseology by Sylviane Granger,Fanny Meunier Pdf

Long regarded as a peripheral issue, phraseology is now taking centre stage in a wide range of fields. This recent explosion of interest undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the key role of phraseological expressions in language and provided researchers with automated methods of extraction and analysis. The aim of this volume is to take stock of current research in phraseology from a variety of perspectives: theoretical, descriptive, contrastive, cultural, lexicographic and computational. It contains overview chapters by leading experts in the field and a series of case studies focusing on a wide range of multiword units: collocations, similes, idioms, routine formulae and recurrent phrases. The volume is an invitation for experienced phraseologists to look at the field with different eyes and a useful introduction for the many researchers who are intrigued by phraseology but need help in finding their way in this rich but complex domain.

Author : Fabio Mollica,Paola Cotta Ramusino
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781527546639

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Contrastive Phraseology by Fabio Mollica,Paola Cotta Ramusino Pdf

This volume is addressed to researchers in the field of phraseology, and to teachers, translators and lexicographers. It is a collection of essays offering a comprehensive, modern analysis of phrasemes, embracing a wide range of subjects and themes, from linguistic, both applied and theoretical, to cultural aspects. The contrastive approach underlying this variety of themes allows the divergences and analogies between phraseological units in two or more languages to be outlined. The languages compared here are both major and minor, European and non-European, and the text includes contrastive analyses of the most commonly investigated languages (French-German, English-Spanish, Russian-German), as well as some less frequently investigated languages (like Ukrainian, Romanian, Georgian and Thai), which are not as well-represented in phraseological description, despite their scientific interest.

Author : Elena Arsenteva
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443858076

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Phraseology in Multilingual Society by Elena Arsenteva Pdf

This unique volume showcases the best presentations of the international conference “Phraseology in Multilingual Society” held at Kazan Federal University, Russia, in August 2013. The twenty-seven essays included here represent different research efforts by specialists in phraseology from around the world. The book reflects numerous different aspects of phraseological research, including those from semantic, pragmatic, and comparative fields of study. Furthermore, the volume also presents an investigation of some practical problems of paremiology and phraseography.

Author : Cristiano Furiassi,Virginia Pulcini,Félix Rodríguez González
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027273635

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The Anglicization of European Lexis by Cristiano Furiassi,Virginia Pulcini,Félix Rodríguez González Pdf

This volume explores the lexical influence of English on European languages, a topical theme with linguistic and cultural implications. It provides an extensive introductory background to a cross-national view of English-induced lexical borrowing, posing crucial analytical questions such as what counts as an Anglicism. It also offers a typology of borrowings with examples from the languages represented: Armenian, Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, Spanish, and Swedish. The articles in this volume address general and language-specific issues related to the analysis and collection of Anglicisms, extending the scope to the largely unexplored area of phraseology and bringing new insights into corpus-based and corpus-driven methodologies. This volume fits into a well-established and constantly developing research field and will appeal to scholars interested in the spread of English as an international language, contact and contrastive linguistics, lexicology and lexicography, and computer corpus lexicography.

Author : Alenka Vrbinc
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527532663

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A Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Analysis of English and Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units by Alenka Vrbinc Pdf

The book investigates English and Slovene onomastic phraseological units (PUs), and is based on two databases containing English and Slovene PUs with anthroponyms, toponyms and their derivatives. These databases were created using monolingual English and Slovene phraseological dictionaries. The volume provides in-depth, cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research into this segment of phraseology, and represents the most extensive treatment of any contrastive topic involving Slovene and a foreign language. As such, it will serve to be a useful source of information for scholars of Slavonic and other languages, as well as anyone interested in phraseology, cultural specificity, etymology, translation equivalence, and the stereotypical use of ethnonyms.

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781626743038

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Behold the Proverbs of a People by Wolfgang Mieder Pdf

The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies) in general, the spread of Anglo-American proverbs in Europe, and the phenomenon of modern proverbs. The second section analyzes the use of proverbs in the world of politics, including a chapter on President Obama, while the third concentrates on the uses of proverbs in literature. The final section ends with detailed cultural studies of the origin, history, dissemination, use, function, and meaning of specific proverbs. Noted scholar Wolfgang Mieder shows that proverbs matter in culture, literature, and politics. Proverbs remain part and parcel of oral and written communication, and, he demonstrates, they deserve to be studied from a range of viewpoints. While various chapters deal with a variety of issues and approaches, they cohere through a rhetorical perspective that looks at the text, texture, and context of proverbs as speech acts that make a noteworthy impact on culture and society. Whether proverbs appear in everyday speech, on the radio, on television, in films, on the pages of newspapers or magazines, in advertisements, in literary works, or in political speeches, they serve as formulaic verbal devices to add authoritative weight through tradition, convention, and wisdom.

Author : Elisabeth Piirainen,Natalia Filatkina,Sören Stumpf,Christian Pfeiffer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110666588

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Formulaic Language and New Data by Elisabeth Piirainen,Natalia Filatkina,Sören Stumpf,Christian Pfeiffer Pdf

The existence of formulaic patterns has been attested to all languages of the world. However, systematic research in this field has been focused on only a few European standard languages with a rich literary tradition and a high degree of written norm. It was on the basis of these data that the theoretical framework and methodological approaches were developed. The volume shifts this focus by centering the investigation on new data, including data from lesser-used languages and dialects, extra-european languages, linguistic varieties mostly used in spoken domains as well as at previous historical stages of language development. Their inclusion challenges the existing postulates at both a theoretical and methodological level. Areas of interest include the following questions: What is formulaic in these types of languages, varieties and dialects? Are the criteria developed within the framework of phraseological research applicable to new data? Can any specific types of formulaic patterns and/or any specific features of regular (already known) types of formulaic patterns be observed and how do they emerge? What methodological difficulties need to be overcome when dealing with new data?

Author : Ian Mackenzie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134503889

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English as a Lingua Franca by Ian Mackenzie Pdf

English as a Lingua Franca: Theorizing and Teaching English examines the English used among non-native speakers around the world today and its relation to English as a native language, as well as the implications for English language teaching. Challenging and incisive, this book analyses positive and negative accounts of English as a lingua franca, and its linguistic features, within the context of: native and World Englishes multilingualism and intercultural communication sociolinguistic issues including accent and identity classroom teaching and learning English as a Lingua Franca is a useful guide for teachers and trainee teachers, and will be essential reading for advanced students and linguists concerned with multilingualism, language contact, language learning, language change, and the place of English in the world today.

Author : Sabine Arndt-Lappe,Angelika Braun,Claudine Moulin,Esme Winter-Froemel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110498165

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Expanding the Lexicon by Sabine Arndt-Lappe,Angelika Braun,Claudine Moulin,Esme Winter-Froemel Pdf

The creation of new lexical units and patterns has been studied in different research frameworks, focusing on either system-internal or system-external aspects, from which no comprehensive view has emerged. The volume aims to fill this gap by studying dynamic processes in the lexicon – understood in a wide sense as not being necessarily limited to the word level – by bringing together approaches directed to morphological productivity as well as approaches analyzing general types of lexical innovation and the role of discourse-related factors. The papers deal with ongoing changes as well as with historical processes of change in different languages and reflect on patterns and specific subtypes of lexical innovation as well as on their external conditions and the speakers’ motivations for innovating. Moreover, the diffusion and conventionalization of innovations will be addressed. In this way, the volume contributes to understanding the complex interplay of structural, cognitive and functional factors in the lexicon as a highly dynamic domain.

Author : Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij,Elisabeth Piirainen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110702538

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Figurative Language by Dmitrij Dobrovol'skij,Elisabeth Piirainen Pdf

The book develops a Theory of the Figurative Lexicon. Units of the figurative lexicon (conventional figurative units, CFUs for short) differ from all other elements of the language in two points: Firstly, they are conventionalized. That is, they are elements of the mental lexicon – in contrast to freely created figurative expressions. Secondly, they consist of two conceptual levels: they can be interpreted at the level of their literal reading and at the level of their figurative meaning – which both can be activated simultaneously. New insights into the Theory of Figurative Lexicon relate, on the one hand, to the metaphor theory. Over time, it became increasingly clear that the Conceptual Metaphor Theory in the sense of Lakoff can only partly explain the conventional figurativeness. On the other hand, it became clear that “intertextuality” plays a far greater role in the CFUs of Western cultures than previously assumed. The book’s main target audience will be linguists, researchers in phraseology, paremiology and metaphor, and cultural studies. The data and explanations of the idioms will provide a welcome textbook in courses on linguistics, culture history, phraseology research and phraseodidactics.

Author : Ida Raffaelli,Daniela Katunar,Barbara Kerovec
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027262127

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Lexicalization patterns in color naming by Ida Raffaelli,Daniela Katunar,Barbara Kerovec Pdf

The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages. Although previous studies have dealt with categorization and perceptual salience of color terms, few studies have been consistently conducted in order to investigate phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic devices languages use to form color terms. The aim of this volume is to approach color data from a relativist and typological perspective and to address some novel viewpoints in the research of color terms, such as: (a) the focus on language structure per se in the study of lexicalization data; (b) investigation of inter- and intra-language structural variation; (c) culture and language contact as reflected in language structure. Topics of this book have a broad appeal to researchers working in the fields of linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology.