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Substitution as a Means of Producing Context-Specific Meaning of an Idiom
(STEF92 Technology, 2020, I. Olehnovica, D. Olehnovics, Z. Ikere)
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The paper discusses the use of idioms in British newspapers focusing particularly on the substitution of components aimed at producing context-specific idiomatic meaning. An idiom is a relatively stable (both grammatically and semantically), cohesive, conventionally fixed string of words with completely or partially figurative meaning, which is not a combination of a verb and an adverbial or prepositional particle and which is not longer than a sentence [1]. An idiom is a relatively stable unit of language because...
SOCIAL SCIENCES: Section Law and Society2020