Sökning: "Heidi Orava Anderson"

Hittade 1 uppsats innehållade orden Heidi Orava Anderson.

  1. 1. Kick the Bucket or Cash in One's Chips : An analysis of some English slang expressions for dying

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Författare :Heidi Orava Anderson; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Metaphor; metonymy; idioms; slang; dying;

    Sammanfattning : This research analyses some of the slang expressions with the meaning ‘to die’ found in Dictionary of Modern Slang with regard to metaphor and metonymy and whether they have been active when creating the identified slang expressions. It further examines the frequency of these expressions in a large language corpus, and identifies the processes involved in the most frequent expressions. LÄS MER