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Direct linkGrant, Lynn E. – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
This article outlines criteria to define a figurative idiom, and then compares the frequent figurative idioms identified in two sources of spoken American English (academic and contemporary) to their frequency in spoken British English. This is done by searching the spoken part of the British National Corpus (BNC), to see whether they are frequent…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Language Usage, North American English, Figurative Language
