Book Title: O Jeito que a gente diz: combinações consagradas em Inglês e Português.

right) is a lexical study of the English language and its translations into German, Spanish, French and Italian. To be more precise, the author works with the translation of idioms and other linguistic units that require an accurate pragmatic knowledge on the foreign language. The title of this work refers to the linguistic conventions commonly used in a given society. Tagnin also believes that conventional means language in use, what people often say and use, following common standards without being original when it comes to new linguistic forms. Over the course of this work, the author describesin detail the terms ‘conventionality’ and ‘idiomaticity’, because the work is linked to a pragmatic approach of language, which at first is not presented in the early sections of the book. In the definition of conventionality, the author presents a somewhat general definition of conventionality based on some concepts from the Concise Oxford Dictionary – she shows some concepts from the Concise Oxford Dictionary – combining social convention wit