Meaning and interpretation of Igbo body-parts based idioms

Classes of idioms and their interpretation

In this paper, we will show that the distinction between idiomatically combining expressions (ICE) and idiomatic phrases (IP) is not as clear-cut and uniform as Nunberg, Sag & Wasow (1994) appear to assume: for example, we show that V one’s head off idioms can neither be neatly classified within one class nor within the other. We compare our approach to these idioms with two recent formal accou...

the effect of explicit teaching of metacognitive vocabulary learning strategies on recall and retention of idioms

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Meaning, Interpretation and Semantics

ion that is supposed to be characteristic for every empirical science. Physics studies movement on a frictionless plane, or the properties of a perfect vacuum; analogously, semantics deals with meaning and its properties on an equally abstract, yet empirical level. Or so it is assumed. But whereas physics, abstraction not withstanding, produces empirically testable predictions, it is far from c...

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

Beyond the Grave –The Use and Meaning of Human Body Parts: A Historical Introduction