On Idiom Parts and their Contexts

Soehn, Jan-Philipp

doi:10.13092/lo.27.741

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“…However, these words and others like pig and ostrich are not metaphorically preferable when used in Arabic in speaker-hearer conversations because of the bad meaning they might be intended to be used for. See: Ping (2005) ; Dobrovlskij and Pirainen (2006); Yagis and Izadpanah (2013); and Soehn (2006) Yang ( 2010) explains that idioms are formed in cultures through a long period of time. They belong to their cultures and their certain race.…”

Section: Idioms and Culturementioning

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EFL Iraqi Learners' Pragmatic Failure in English Animal Idiomatic Expressions

Rushdi¹,

Ahmed

Ismael³

2023

WJEL

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This research concerns the pragmatic failure of the Iraqi EFL learners in interpreting the meanings of some sorts of idiomatic expression; namely, animal idiomatic expressions. Regardless of their grammatical formation, idiomatic expressions use tends to be largely dependent upon context. Pragmatic failure is a term which was first coined by Jenny Thomas in (1983) which is defined as the inability to understand what is said by what is intended. Pragmatic failure is of two types: pragma-linguistic and socio-pragmatic failure. As known, the meaning of animal idiomatic expressions vary from culture to culture, because of the difference of norms and principles the culture imposes on the residents of certain place. Pragmatically, the use of idiomatic expressions in English carry a diversity of meanings which learners of other languages will surely fall short in determining the exact intentions of speakers using these expressions as well as having a relation to the culture that the speech community has. The culture pragmatically place a major role too. However, this is due to the fact that idiomatic expressions have indirect speech acts and implicatures bond by the culture of the language that ought to be figured out by the learners. The study hypothesizes that most of EFL Iraqi learners will fail to interpret these expressions and also after putting these idiomatic expressions into their contexts.

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Section: Idioms and Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

EFL Iraqi Learners' Pragmatic Failure in English Animal Idiomatic Expressions

Rushdi¹,

Ahmed

Ismael³

2023

WJEL

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Identifying the Key Components of Phraseological Units

Ayupova

Arsenteva

Lutfullina

et al. 2020

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Purpose of the study: The experiment is aimed at studying the potential of non-native speakers in applying various idiom transformations. The relevance of the current work is closely related to its purpose since the ability to identify the key component of an idiom or proverb makes their comprehension much easier and deeper. Methodology: The authors used experimental methods to reveal the role of transformations in identifying the key components of idioms. The experiment included several types of experiments: natural, transformational, open and mental. The subjects were 28 third-year students of Kazan Federal University whose major is English as a group of informants. The group of informants was given 10 English phraseological units which include a component part nominating some profession. Students were given two tasks and the time limit given for it was 2 – 2.5 hours. Main Findings: The paper describes an experiment conducted with the purpose of identifying key components/components of phraseological units. Having analyzed two types of phraseological transformations (substitution and deletion) performed by informants, we draw conclusions concerning the relevance of applying each of these types of transformation for the purpose of identifying the key component/components. Applications of this study: Analysis of the results of the experiment conducted within this research demonstrates that each of the phraseological units under analysis is built according to a particular semantic model, which is retained when any of the component parts are substituted and can be restored when deleting component parts other than key ones. Novelty/Originality of this study: The fact that most phraseological units are built according to some semantic template and the possibility of distinguishing one or more key components within them is assumed. The experiment also reveals the possibility of an element of a phraseological unit being not necessarily a component part. The relevance of the current work is closely related to its purpose since the ability to identify the key component of an idiom or proverb makes their comprehension much easier and deeper.

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On Idiom Parts and their Contexts

Cited by 2 publications

References 18 publications

EFL Iraqi Learners' Pragmatic Failure in English Animal Idiomatic Expressions

EFL Iraqi Learners' Pragmatic Failure in English Animal Idiomatic Expressions

Identifying the Key Components of Phraseological Units

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