The aim of this master’s thesis was to study food idioms and their variation in three different varieties of English. Ten different idioms containing a food element were chosen for this study: spill the beans, icing on the cake, peas in a pod, sell like hot cakes, cry over spilt milk, go bananas, apple of somebody’s eye, take something with a pinch of salt, eat humble pie and cream of the crop. These idioms were studied in British English, Indian English and Hong Kong English, which all represent different circles of English, and English has a different status in these countries. The data for the study were gathered from the News on The Web Corpus. The data consist of news articles from the years 2010-2019. For each idiom, different sear...
Killing two birds with one stone (lyödä kaksi kärpästä yhdellä iskulla) – tyyppisten kuvaannollisten...
Conventional ways of wording, which span from routine formulae to proverbs, through binomials, collo...
Learners of English should be made aware of the nature, types, and use of English idioms. This pape...
[[abstract]]The aim of present investigation is to uncover whether habitual collocations are semant...
The aim of present investigation is to uncover whether habitual collocations are semantically abstra...
Recent corpus-based studies have shown that idioms can vary much more extensively than previously cl...
Recent corpus-based research has shown that idioms can be utilized with a range of variation (cf. Mo...
This study is about lexical variation within idiomatic expressions in Finnish. A representative body...
This article reports on two parallel but independent studies of idiom variation in corpora — one of ...
In this presentation we reported on two parallel but independent studies of idiom variation in corpo...
Idioms are often considered fossilized, i.e. they are supposed to be invariant in appearance. With t...
Corpus-based research on idiomatic variation has shown that idioms can be utilized with an extensive...
Human creativity in using language is incredible. It is reflected through several variations and cha...
This study investigates the processing of idiomatic variants through an eye-tracking experiment. Fou...
This paper discusses how Chinese and Japanese-inspired culinary terms have become part of the Englis...
Killing two birds with one stone (lyödä kaksi kärpästä yhdellä iskulla) – tyyppisten kuvaannollisten...
Conventional ways of wording, which span from routine formulae to proverbs, through binomials, collo...
Learners of English should be made aware of the nature, types, and use of English idioms. This pape...
[[abstract]]The aim of present investigation is to uncover whether habitual collocations are semant...
The aim of present investigation is to uncover whether habitual collocations are semantically abstra...
Recent corpus-based studies have shown that idioms can vary much more extensively than previously cl...
Recent corpus-based research has shown that idioms can be utilized with a range of variation (cf. Mo...
This study is about lexical variation within idiomatic expressions in Finnish. A representative body...
This article reports on two parallel but independent studies of idiom variation in corpora — one of ...
In this presentation we reported on two parallel but independent studies of idiom variation in corpo...
Idioms are often considered fossilized, i.e. they are supposed to be invariant in appearance. With t...
Corpus-based research on idiomatic variation has shown that idioms can be utilized with an extensive...
Human creativity in using language is incredible. It is reflected through several variations and cha...
This study investigates the processing of idiomatic variants through an eye-tracking experiment. Fou...
This paper discusses how Chinese and Japanese-inspired culinary terms have become part of the Englis...
Killing two birds with one stone (lyödä kaksi kärpästä yhdellä iskulla) – tyyppisten kuvaannollisten...
Conventional ways of wording, which span from routine formulae to proverbs, through binomials, collo...
Learners of English should be made aware of the nature, types, and use of English idioms. This pape...