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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 23 avhandlingar innehållade ordet idioms.
1. Studies in Corpora and Idioms : Getting the cat out of the bag
Sammanfattning : “Idiomatic” expressions, usually called “idioms”, such as a dime a dozen, a busman’s holiday, or to have bats in your belfry are a curious part of any language: they usually have a fixed lexical (why a busman?) and structural composition (only dime and dozen in direct conjunction mean ‘common, ordinary’), can be semantically obscure (why bats?), yet are widely recognized in the speech community, in spite of being so rare that only large corpora can provide us with access to sufficient empirical data on their use.In this compilation thesis, four published studies focusing on idioms in corpora are presented. LÄS MER
2. Der Bedeutung auf den Fersen : Studien zum muttersprachlichen Erwerb und zur Komplexität ausgewählter Phraseologismen im Deutschen
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with idioms taken from contemporary newspapers. The purpose is to find out which idioms are known and used by native speakers of different ages and also to what extent the entries in the dictionaries offer accurate descriptions to the meaning of these idioms. LÄS MER
3. Korten på bordet. Innehålls- och uttrycksmässig variation hos svenska idiom
Sammanfattning : The dissertation recounts how thirty-six Swedish idioms consisting of a verb and complement are used in contemporary newspaper material found in the Bank of Swedish Linguistic Reference Databank of Göteborg University. All the expressions occur at least once per million running words in my corpus of almost 33.7 million running words. LÄS MER
4. Nicht auf Sand gebaut : Diachrone und kognitive Studien zu Bibelidiomen
Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, 80 biblical idioms from German translations are analysed and compared. No comparison with the original languages is made. Luther’s 1534 translation forms the basis of the examination. LÄS MER
5. Language Processing and Contextual Influence. A study of Swedish preschool children with language impairment
Sammanfattning : Language Processing and Contextual Influence A Study of Swedish Preschool Children with Language Impairment The aim of the present work was to study different types of contextual influence on language performance in a variety of tasks: repetition of nonwords, narration, understanding of idioms and picture naming in a group of Swedish preschool children with language impairment (LI). The stress pattern of words and nonwords was found to have an impact on the repetition performance of the participants. LÄS MER