| Idioms and Fixed Expressions in English Language Study Before 1800: A Contribution to English Historical Phraseology Contributor(s): Viereck, Wolfgang (Editor), Knappe, Gabriele (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631528590 ISBN-13: 9783631528594 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $193.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Foreign Language Study | English As A Second Language - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 427.009 |
| LCCN: 2004057813 |
| Series: University of Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 668 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study represents the first critical examination of the contexts and ways in which idioms and fixed expressions of two or more words (phraseological units) such as let sleeping dogs lie, try one's luck or at hand were collected, commented upon and also analysed by English language scholars between about 1440 and 1800. The large-scale investigation surveys theoretical and practical approaches including proverb studies, treatises on rhetoric and style, foreign-language teaching, collections of phrases, bilingual and monolingual lexicography, translation, universal and philosophical language schemes, shorthand systems and English grammar books. This pioneering study is intended to contribute to the formation of English historical phraseology as a new subdiscipline in English linguistics. |