Idioms: Description, Comprehension, Acquisition, and Pedagogy

by Dilin Liu

Book Overview

This comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible text on idiom use, learning, and teaching approaches the topic with a balance of sound theory and extensive research in cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and sociolinguistics combined with informed teaching practices. Idioms is organized into three parts:

Part I includes discussion of idiom definition, classification, usage patterns, and functions. Part II investigates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080586346X
• ISBN13: 9780805863468
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"