Idioms and Idiomaticity (Describing English Language)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0194371999
ISBN 13
9780194371995
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Unknown
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Publication Year
1996
Publisher
Pages
184
Description
The series will provide much-needed descriptions of modern English which take the revelations of recent research into account. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of idioms and idiomaticity from a functional perspective. It examines the use of idioms in discourse to combine the novel and the conventional, to convey representations of the world, evaluate people and situations, signal conviviality or conflict, and create coherent, cohesive texts. The book goes on to consider implications for language learning and development. - from Amzon
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1
