Sökning: "figurative meaning"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 28 uppsatser innehållade orden figurative meaning.

1. 21. Measuring the Impact of Cultural Context on Chinese ESL University Learners’ Comprehension and Memorization of Figurative Idioms

   Magister-uppsats, Sektionen för lärande och miljö

   Författare :Zhou ChunKe; [2011]
   Nyckelord :figurative idiom; culture; cultural context;

   Sammanfattning : This paper primarily focuses on the description of the results of a study conducted on ten Chinese university students ESL learners to investigate  whether or not cultural context has a significant impact on university students’ ability to remember and understand English figurative idioms as part of English as a Second Language instruction in China. Since Idiom  is a kind of language block which concord rich cultural elements and the figurative idiom whose meaning cannot be easy inferred by the usual meaning of its constituent elements, so the present study was based on the relationship between culture and language, the origins of the idioms and their cultural connotations. LÄS MER

3. 22. Onomatopoeic phrasal verbs : A corpus study of their meanings and usage in American English

   Magister-uppsats, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

   Författare :Oskar Rydblom; [2010]
   Nyckelord :Compositionality; corpus study; figurative meaning; extension of meaning; meaning; metaphors; onomatopoeia; ontological metaphors; orientational metaphors; phrasal verbs; registers; semantic;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines how the meanings of onomatopoeic phrasal verbs are created and in which register these verbs are most frequently used. Through the study of previous research on the subject qualities of onomatopoeia and phrasal verbs are identified. LÄS MER

4. 23. He is a few fries short of a Happy Meal : A study of the semantic and syntactic properties of idioms with the structure X (be)(quantifier) Y short/shy of X

   Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Marc Harding; [2009]
   Nyckelord :metaphor; snowclone; source meaning; target meaning; meronymy; construction; valence;

   Sammanfattning : This study is an investigation of how semantic and syntactic properties interact in a regular way in variants of a common expression type or Snowclone. Conventional variants of this construction are (someone is) a few (French) fries short/shy of a Happy Meal, (someone is) one sandwich short of a picnic and (someone is) one card short of a full deck. LÄS MER

5. 24. Landskapsideal : hur uppväxtens landskap formar individen

   L3-uppsats, SLU/Dept. Of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management

   Författare :Marie Malmström; [2008]
   Nyckelord :landskapsplanering; landskapsideal; barndomslandskap; uppväxt; referenslandskap;

   Sammanfattning : The landscape can be something that you rest your eyes on, something that goes quickly past outside the windscreen or the place for the daily work. To me, landscape is everything around us – the city, the field and the forest. LÄS MER

7. 25. Punning Exploiting External and Internal Metaphors : A Study of Groucho Marx's Use of Metaphor Reversal

   Magister-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Kalle Larsson; [2007]
   Nyckelord :polysemy; punning; metaphor reversal; figurative meaning; literal meaning; internal metaphor; external metaphor; idiom; continuum; universe of discourse;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this study has been to analyse metaphorical strings which have been interpreted literally, a process referred to as metaphor reversal. This was first described by Löflund (1999:18) and the specific term was later coined by Alm-Arvius (2006:6). Metaphor reversal is basically a subcategory of the broader term polysemy punning. LÄS MER