29.4541, Books: Food and Drink Idioms in English: Pinnavaia

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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:29:41
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Subject: Food and Drink Idioms in English: Pinnavaia

 


Title: Food and Drink Idioms in English 
Subtitle: “A Little Bit More Sugar and Lots of Spice” 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: https://cambridgescholars.com/food-and-drink-idioms-in-english/ 


Author: Laura Pinnavaia

Hardback: ISBN:  9781527508170 Pages: 235 Price: U.K. £ 61.99


Abstract:

Idioms carry an aura of mystery for all speakers, owing to the discrepancy
between their literal and non-literal meanings. This book clears up some of
these ambiguities, by examining a series of expressions that have derived from
the most instinctive and essential of all human behaviour: eating and
drinking. The quantity and quality of 276 food and drink idioms are explored,
investigating two hundred and fifty years of English monolingual lexicography
and forty years of usage as attested by contemporary linguistic corpora. The
examination of these idioms’ syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, historical,
social and cultural characteristics will foster in speakers a whole new
approach to idiom comprehension and usage, and will constitute
thought-provoking ground for further research in other idiom domains.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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