Slovak students’ comprehension of English figurative idioms containing body parts
Figurative idioms constitute a large proportion of multi-word expressions in everyday language. Contrary to the traditional view of idioms as non-compositional units, numerous studies in cognitive linguistics show that most idioms are not arbitrary but motivated by conceptual metaphors and metonymie...
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Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Topics in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/topling-2015-0003 |