Idioms and Idiomaticity

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of idioms and idiomaticity from a functional perspective. It examines the use of idioms in discourse to combine the novel and the conventional, to convey representations of the world, evaluate people and situations, signal conviviality or conflict, and create coherent, cohesive texts. The book goes on to consider implications for language learning and development.

• Author
• Chitra Fernando, John Sinclair, Ronald Carter

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 265

• Series
• Describing English Language

• Publisher
• Oxford University Press, USA

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780194371995

• Release date
• 1996