This paper aims to formulate the notion of metaphodiom and establish operational criteria for its definition by combining key insights emanating from quantitative corpus linguistics, cognitive theory metaphor, a linguistic approach idioms. To this end, author selects boxing idioms analysis, extracts their occurrences in Corpus Contemporary American English (COCA), determines structural, semanti...

The Tamil language has a long literary history, grammatical richness, and cultural richness. is considered to be the oldest in world with grammar books like Tolkappiyam, Nannool, Agam, Puram Moral literature Patinenmelkanakku, Patinenkilkanakku, devotional Panniru Thirumaraikal Nalayiram Thiruppadalkal. twelve Saiva are prominent of language. Out these Thirumaraikal, eighth Thirumarai composed ...