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Ammer, Christine – 1995
This book explains the usage of more than 1,000 food-related expressions in everyday English. The 13 comprehensive chapters of the book cover the entire alphabet of food phrases from "soup to nuts" (or as in the index, from "above the salt" to "zest") as well as cooking and dining terms. The book provides many food…
Descriptors: Definitions, English, Etymology, Figurative Language
Hatch, Evelyn; Brown, Cheryl – 1995
Designed as a textbook for language teachers and students of linguistics, this volume explores the system underlying three related areas of language: semantics, lexicon, and vocabulary. The first part is concerned with semantics and semantic analysis, including semantic features and feature analysis, semantic field analysis, core meanings and…
Descriptors: Classification, Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Figurative Language
