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Baramee Kheovichai – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
Research has shown that food metaphors play an important role in humans' conceptualization of various domains of experience. However, insufficient attention has been paid to the phraseology of food metaphors. This research aims to investigate food metaphors and their phraseology. Particularly, this paper focuses on the lemmas "consume"…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, North American English
Joseph Gagen Stockdale III – Online Submission, 2025
"A Dictionary of Contemporary Figurative Language" is meant to be an appendix to an earlier, more comprehensive work: ED648945, "A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor 2024." This appendix simply updates the dictionary of that previous work to better reflect the language used during the 2024…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Language Usage, Dictionaries, Phrase Structure
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Aigul Sarbassova; Karylga Duisenova; Kuralay Zhampeiis; Aiym Aldabergenova; Dinara Sapargaliyeva; Zhanslu Kanagatova – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
Paremiology is a branch of linguistics that studies proverbs and idioms, with their structural, semantic and pragmatic features. The purpose of the study was to distinguish ethnocultural and linguo-cognitive features inherent in Paremiology. For this purpose, the study analyzed family traditions related to weddings in Kazakh, English and Chinese…
Descriptors: Turkic Languages, Chinese, Proverbs, Ethics