Understanding idioms and idiomatic expressions in context: a look at idioms found in an Irish soap opera
This paper looks at idioms drawn from a corpus of soap opera and compares their communicative functions to those performed by idioms in corpora of naturally-occurring conversation. In this study soap opera data is validated as a suitable tool for demonstrating the role that idioms play in spoken in...
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| Language: | English |
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The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/154 |