Author: Rosario Lisciandro
Publisher: Universidad Almería
ISBN: 8413512077
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 47
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Idioms in a Nutshell II es el segundo libro de un compendio de tres destinados a la enseñanza, aprendizaje y práctica de idioms. El libro está dividido en dos partes: una teórica, con las expresiones propuestas en inglés y su equivalente en español, en forma de infografía, y una práctica en la que se proponen tres tipos de ejercicios con cada idiom. A continuación, se hallan las soluciones correspondientes a cada uno de ellos y, finalmente, encontramos un glosario donde se incluyen todas las expresiones que se han trabajado. Este libro está diseñado para la enseñanza y aprendizaje de idioms, por lo que está destinado tanto a profesores como a estudiantes con conocimientos previos de inglés (nivel B1 en adelante). Su finalidad es ayudar a que la adquisición léxica del estudiante se realice gradualmente y se consolide como parte activa de su vocabulario.
Author: Dimitra Anastasiou
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443825409
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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In 1975, Searle stated that one should speak idiomatically unless there is some good reason not to do so. Fillmore, Kay, and O’Connor in 1988 defined an idiomatic expression or construction as something that a language user could fail to know while knowing everything else in the language. Our language is rich in conversational phrases, idioms, metaphors, and general expressions used in metaphorical meaning. These idiomatic expressions pose a particular challenge for Machine Translation (MT), because their translation for the most part does not work literally, but logically. The present book shows how idiomatic expressions can be recognized and correctly translated with the help of a bilingual idiom dictionary (English-German), a monolingual (German) corpus, and morphosyntactic rules. The work focuses on the field of Example-based Machine Translation (EBMT). A theory of idiomatic expressions with their syntactic and semantic properties is provided, followed by the practical part of the book which describes how the hybrid EBMT system METIS-II is able to correctly process idiomatic expressions. A comparison of METIS-II with three commercial systems shows that idioms are not impossible to translate as it was predicted in 1952: “The only way for a machine to treat idioms is—not to have idioms!” This book furnishes plenty of examples of idiomatic phrases and provides the foundation for how MT systems can process and translate idioms by means of simple linguistic resources.
Author: Anna Dąbrowska
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527516784
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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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.
Author: François Viger
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Category : Greek language
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Author: Georg Benedikt Winer
Publisher:
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Category : Greek language, Biblical
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Author: Sura College of Competition
Publisher: Sura Books
ISBN: 9788172541552
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Author: Iulian Mardar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527578518
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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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.
Author: Wiltrud Wagner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110685493
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Idioms have long been of interest to research in linguistics as well as literary studies. In the existing research, however, the aesthetic productivity of idiomatic ambiguity has never been in focus. The present study on Idioms and Ambiguity in Context fills this gap by analyzing a corpus of children’s literature—traditionally characterized by a high measure of wordplay and ambiguity—both in a linguistic and literary perspective. Looking at the connection between context and understanding of idiomatic expressions in either their phrasal or their compositional reading, the study explores how ambiguity is activated, if, how, and when it is perceived on the different levels of communication, and how literary texts use this ambiguity in playful ways.
Author: EduGorilla Prep Experts
Publisher: Dr. Priyanka Gupta Manglik
ISBN: 9358806486
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Author: Martin Everaert
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317780736
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Idioms have always aroused the curiosity of linguists and there is a long tradition in the study of idioms, especially within the fields of lexicology and lexicography. Without denying the importance of this tradition, this volume presents an overview of recent idiom research outside the immediate domain of lexicology/lexicography. The chapters address the status of idioms in recent formal and experimental linguistic theorizing. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions are written by psycholinguists and theoretical and computational linguists who take mutual advantage of progress in all disciplines. Linguists supply the facts and analyses psycholinguists base their models and experiments on; psycholinguists in turn confront linguistic models with psycholinguistic findings. Computational linguists build natural language processing systems on the basis of models and frameworks provided by theoretical linguists and, sometimes psycholinguists, and set up large corpora to test linguistic hypotheses. Besides the fascination for idioms that make up such a large part of our knowledge of language, interdisciplinarity is one of the attractions of investigations in idiomatic language and language processing.
