Colouring meaning : collocation and connotation in figurative language /
Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several leve...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2011
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| Series: | Studies in corpus linguistics ;
v. 43. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several levels, from the purely linguistic level of collocation, through its abstractions in colligation and semantic preference, to semantic prosody and connotation. This journey through both linguistic and cognitive levels involves the examination of habitual language and its exploitations, both mundane and c. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027287236 9027287236 9786613006578 6613006572 128300657X 9781283006576 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
