Essays about: "idioms"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 41 essays containing the word idioms.

  1. 16. How crossing one's fingers and holding one's thumbs manages to convey a similar semantic meaning. : The cognitive motivations behind the understanding of three Swedish and English idiom pairs, with different words for body parts.

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Hanna Lindblom; [2017]
    Keywords : Metaphor; metonymy; embodied motivation; idioms; body parts; comparative.;

    Abstract : Three idiom pairs were analysed in order to identify which conceptual motivation, in the form of metaphors, metonymies, embodied motivations and conventional knowledge, were present. Each pair had one Swedish- and one English idiom. READ MORE

  3. 17. Translation of Humour in Media From English Speech to Swedish Subtitles: A Pilot Study of Selected Episodes in the Sitcom Friends

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Agata Leshkovich; [2016-09-26]
    Keywords : engelska; English; Swedish; Audiovisual translation; humour; culture; sitcom; Friends;

    Abstract : The aim of this pilot study is to analyse the translation of humour in selected episodes in the American sitcom Friends from speech to Swedish subtitles in terms of linguistic and cultural aspects. The study was conducted qualitatively by choosing several episodes and thoroughly analysing the translation of linguistic and culture-specific features in order to explore what strategies of translation were implemented on different kinds of jokes, noting the constraints of interlingual subtitling. READ MORE

  4. 18. Investigating effects of L1 influence and phrase type on L2 processing of contextualized phraseological units – A self-paced reading experiment

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Marcus Olofsson; [2016]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay investigates the online L2 processing of restricted collocations and figurative idioms. Earlier research has shown there to be a difference in how these word combinations are processed depending on a variety of factors. READ MORE

  5. 19. Cognitively Motivated Meanings for Idioms : The Metaphorical and Metonymical Structures of two Semantically Equivalent but Structurally Different Idioms in English and Swedish

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Björn Book; [2016]
    Keywords : cognitive linguistics; conceptual metaphor; conceptual metonymy; motivation; embodiment;

    Abstract : This paper analyses the similarities and differences of the cognitive structures of the English-Swedish idiom pair to step into someone’s shoes and att axla någons mantel (to shoulder someone’s mantle [lit.]) in order to investigate possible conceptual or embodied motivations for their meanings. READ MORE

  6. 20. Idioms in English as a Second Language : Contextualization of L2 idioms (written context versus still pictures) and its effect on students' retention

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Eliane Afram; [2016]
    Keywords : idioms; English; Second language acquisition; vocabulary learning;

    Abstract : The main aim of the present study is to investigate whether there is a difference in retentionbetween two groups of Swedish second language learners of English when they are faced withidioms in a written context or in the form of still pictures. The subjects of the investigation aretwo different groups at a high school in Sweden. READ MORE