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1 online resource (356 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; List of Contributors; PART I. IDIOM INTERPRETATION AND THE LITERAL FIGURATIVE DISTINCTION; 1. Idiom Meanings and Allusional Content; 2. The Place of Idioms in a Literal and Metaphorical World; 3. Why Idioms Are Not Dead Metaphors; 4. The Comprehension and Semantic Interpretation of Idioms; PART II. ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING OF IDIOMS; 5. The Acquisition of Idioms and the Development of Figurative Competence; 6. Ill-Formedness and Transformability in Portuguese Idioms |
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7. The Activation of Idiomatic Meaning in Spoken Language Comprehension8. The Comprehension of Ambiguous Idioms in Context; 9. Syntactic and Semantic Processing During Idiom Comprehension: Neurolinguistic and Psycholinguistic Dissociations; PART III. MEANING AND STRUCTURE; 10. Building Castles in the Air: Some Computational and Theoretical Issues in Idiom Comprehension; 11. The Recognition and Interpretation of Idioms; 12. The Determiner in English Idioms; 13. Idiomaticity as a Reaction to L'Arbitraire du Signe in the Universal Process of Semeio-Genesis; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
""The book draws on a lot of research, is friendly to the reader, and will be of good value to teachers.""Paul Nation, Victoria University of Wellington, AustraliaThis comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible text on idiom use, learning, and teaching approaches the topic with a balance of sound theory and extensive research in cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics combined with informed teaching practices. Idioms is organized in three parts:Part I includes discussion of idiom definition, classification |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Tabossi, Patrizia
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Cacciari, C. (Cristina)
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| ISBN |
9781317782636 |
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1317782631 |
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