Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: The present paper seeks to shed light on the role of context of situation ininterpreting the meaning of some idiomatic expressions. It is observed clearly that anidiomatic expression poses two kinds of meaning if it is uttered in different situations.This paper proves that one situation leads to the literal meaning of the idiomaticexpression, which makes the idiomatic expression lose its idiomaticity. It alsoproves that another situation leads to the pragmatic meaning of the idiomaticity.However, the pragmaticality of some idiomatic expressions completely exists if theidiomatic expressions are uttered in their appropriate situations. After explaining theliteral and non-literal aspects of the expressions, we proposed Arabicrenditions for them.
Source: مجلة بحوث مستقبلية.
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W3119387075