Anthropocentrism as the Semantic Basis of Phraseological Units (Based on English Idioms)

The aim of the paper is to prove that English idioms are anthropocentric in their semantics. In order to achieve this aim, the method of continuous sampling from various lexicographic sources has been used to compile a representative corpus of 1200 English idioms. The idioms have been analyzed from...

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Main Authors: E.E. Vedmanova, N.V. Kulikova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kazan Federal University 2016-10-01
Series:Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки
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Online Access:https://kpfu.ru/portal/docs/F1261093703/158_5_gum_9.pdf
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