ARM AND LEG IDIOMS IN THE BNC AND COCA CORPORA: VIEWS ON THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SOCIETY

ARM AND LEG IDIOMS IN THE BNC AND COCA CORPORA: VIEWS ON THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SOCIETY

Phraseological units, primarily idioms are those types of linguistic units which reveal to a great extent how certain linguistic community copes with its surroundings. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate how idioms in English language are actually differently used across different genres in Briti...

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Main Author: Nevena Tanasić
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for the Development of Science, Engineering and Education 2014-06-01
Series:International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education
Subjects:
arm and leg idioms
bnc
coca
cultural difference
Online Access:https://ijcrsee.com/index.php/ijcrsee/article/view/108
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spelling doaj-9cb252c2eb0e4d2eb6b0dd5c1f3ca0142021-07-22T10:21:08ZengAssociation for the Development of Science, Engineering and EducationInternational Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education2334-847X2334-84962014-06-01217785108ARM AND LEG IDIOMS IN THE BNC AND COCA CORPORA: VIEWS ON THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SOCIETYNevena Tanasić0Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in OsijekPhraseological units, primarily idioms are those types of linguistic units which reveal to a great extent how certain linguistic community copes with its surroundings. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate how idioms in English language are actually differently used across different genres in British and American linguistic communities, and try to explain those results in light of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. The study was conducted on the basis of the idioms that have the same body part, namely arm and/or leg, and those idioms were then compared in two corpora – the BNC (British National Corpus) and COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English).https://ijcrsee.com/index.php/ijcrsee/article/view/108arm and leg idiomsbnccocacultural difference
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ARM AND LEG IDIOMS IN THE BNC AND COCA CORPORA: VIEWS ON THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SOCIETY
International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education
arm and leg idioms
bnc
coca
cultural difference
author_facet Nevena Tanasić
author_sort Nevena Tanasić
title ARM AND LEG IDIOMS IN THE BNC AND COCA CORPORA: VIEWS ON THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SOCIETY
title_short ARM AND LEG IDIOMS IN THE BNC AND COCA CORPORA: VIEWS ON THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SOCIETY
title_full ARM AND LEG IDIOMS IN THE BNC AND COCA CORPORA: VIEWS ON THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SOCIETY
title_fullStr ARM AND LEG IDIOMS IN THE BNC AND COCA CORPORA: VIEWS ON THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SOCIETY
title_full_unstemmed ARM AND LEG IDIOMS IN THE BNC AND COCA CORPORA: VIEWS ON THE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN SOCIETY
title_sort arm and leg idioms in the bnc and coca corpora: views on the cultural differences between british and american society
publisher Association for the Development of Science, Engineering and Education
series International Journal of Cognitive Research in Science, Engineering and Education
issn 2334-847X
2334-8496
publishDate 2014-06-01
description Phraseological units, primarily idioms are those types of linguistic units which reveal to a great extent how certain linguistic community copes with its surroundings. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate how idioms in English language are actually differently used across different genres in British and American linguistic communities, and try to explain those results in light of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. The study was conducted on the basis of the idioms that have the same body part, namely arm and/or leg, and those idioms were then compared in two corpora – the BNC (British National Corpus) and COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English).
topic arm and leg idioms
bnc
coca
cultural difference
url https://ijcrsee.com/index.php/ijcrsee/article/view/108
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