Idioms and Ambiguity in Context Phrasal and Compositional Readings of Idiomatic Expressions
Idioms have long been of interest to research in linguistics as well as literary studies. In the existing research, however, the aesthetic productivity of idiomatic ambiguity has never been in focus. The present study on Idioms and Ambiguity in Context fills this gap by analyzing a corpus of childre...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter,
[2020]
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| Series: | Dynamics of wordplay ;
v 9. |
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Idioms, Ambiguity, and the Role of Context: State of the Art
- Introduction
- 1 Idioms: Deriving a Working Definition
- 2 The Ambiguity Model and the Analysis of Idioms
- 3 Ambiguity and Context
- Part II: Ambiguous Idioms in Context: A Theoretical Contribution
- Introduction
- 4 Idioms in Context: Four Types of Ambiguity Use
- 5 TInCAP: A Corpus for Annotating Ambiguity
- 6 Annotation of Idioms in Literary Texts with TInCAP
- Part III: Ambiguous Idioms in Context: Exemplary Analyses
- Introduction
- 7 Idioms in Attested Contexts
- 8 Compiling a Corpus
- 9 Patterns of Ambiguous Use of Idioms
- Conclusion and Outlook
- Works Cited
- Appendix: Corpus
- Abstract
- Résumé
- Index