Essays about: "of idiomatic expressions"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 essays containing the words of idiomatic expressions.

  1. 1. Syntax-based Concept Alignment for Machine Translation

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

    Author : Arianna Masciolini; [2023-03-30]
    Keywords : computational linguistic; machine translation; concept alignment; syntax; dependency parsing; Universal Dependencies; Grammatical Framework;

    Abstract : This thesis presents a syntax-based approach to Concept Alignment (CA), the task of finding semantical correspondences between parts of multilingual parallel texts, with a focus on Machine Translation (MT). Two variants of CA are taken into account: Concept Extraction (CE), whose aim is to identify new concepts by means of mere linguistic comparison, and Concept Propagation (CP), which consists in looking for the translation equivalents of a set of known concepts in a new language. READ MORE

  3. 2. Differences in Animal Metaphorsbetween English and Japanese : A CMT study of English and Japanese idiomatic expressions

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Christopher Pettersson; [2021]
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  4. 3. The effects of intrinsic and extrinsic factors on students’ comprehension of idiomatic expressions in English as a second language

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

    Author : Fridur Rún Dungal; [2021]
    Keywords : Age; Context; Extra-curricular activity; Frequency; Idiom comprehension; SLA; Transparency;

    Abstract : In the present investigation, 99 compulsory school students in Sweden were asked to define nine English idioms chosen for their variation in inherent transparency and frequency. The participants were divided into two groups, where Group 2 was provided with context of varying degrees of support, while Group 1 was not. READ MORE

  5. 4. Idioms in the Classroom : A qualitative study of teaching English idiomatic expressions in Swedish schools

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

    Author : Ana Popovic; [2020]
    Keywords : idioms; idiomatic expressions; figurative language; pedagogy;

    Abstract : According to research, “out of the different types of nonliteral expressions, idioms are the most frequently encountered in discourse. Without a knowledge of idiomatic expressions a nonnative speaker can never fully understand an English movie, sitcom or even the news” (Burke, 1998: 149). READ MORE

  6. 5. Adverbial clauses in translation  : Translation of finite and non-finite (-ing, -ed and to-infinitive) adverbial clauses from English to Swedish in popular science

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Caroline Johansson; [2020]
    Keywords : adverbial clauses; translation; explicitation;

    Abstract : This study investigates adverbial clauses in a translation of a popular science text from English to Swedish. The clauses investigated are both finite and non-finite adverbial clauses. The non-finite adverbial clauses are ing-clauses (present participle), ed-clauses (past participle) and to-infinitive clauses. READ MORE