Idioms and fixed expressions Flashcards
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Idioms
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- frozen patterns which allow little or no variation at all in form
- carry meaning which cannot be deduced from their individual components
2
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Fixed expressions VS proverbs
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- fixed expressions: ladies and gentlemen…
- proverbs: many happy returns (happy birthday)
3
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Easily recognizable
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- violating truth conditions (raining cats and dogs)
- do not follow grammatical rules
- start with “like”
4
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Easily misinterpreted
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- both a literal and idiomatic meaning
- SL expressions that seem to have an equivalent in the TL but have different meaning
5
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Use idiom of similar meaning and form
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in EN ‘the rain fell on the just and on the unjust’ > in French ‘rain fell on the right and not right’.
6
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Use idiom of similar meaning but different form
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in EN ‘very much at home’ > in Chinese ‘totally at ease’
7
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Borrowing the SL idiom
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8
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By paraphrase
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in EN ‘take smt in its stride’ > in Arabic ‘to overcome’
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By omission of a part of idiom
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in EN ‘centuries of craftsmanship on a plate’ > in Japanese ‘the craft of famous people has been continually poured for centuries into a single plate’
10
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By omission of the entire idiom
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in EN ‘for good measure’ > in Arabic totally dismissed (not important)
