Functions of idioms in English as lingua franca
An appraisal system account
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12113754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hamid Allami (0000-0001-7882-856X, Department of English Language Teaching, Faculty of Humanities Tarbiat Modares University Tehran Iran, corresponding author), Monica Karlssön (English Department Halmstad University Halmstad Sweden), Hamid Reza Shahroosvand (Freelancer Shiraz Iran) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1709-1726 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Applied Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0802-6106 • E-ISSN: 1473-4192 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ijal.12588 |
| OpenAlex | W4401277714 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
Idiomatic expressions are not just neutral equivalents of their literal counterparts, but exert some sort of evaluative force. This study employed the appraisal system (AS) to explore the functions of idiomatic expressions and their variations in English as a lingua franca context, and to compare different academic domains in terms of use of evaluative language in the form of idiomatic expressions. To this end, the corpus of English as a lingua franca in academic settings and the Vienna–Oxford International Corpus of English were searched for idiom tokens through whole‐phrase and keyword search. The idioms and their variations were classified based on the AS. The findings indicated that social and behavioral scientific texts included higher proportions of evaluative idiomatic expressions whereas medical and natural scientific texts generated lower percentages of appraisal idioms. There was a stronger tendency in both corpora toward using idioms as appreciation as compared to judgment and affect . Given the employed methodology, the AS could not be applied to some idioms for their compositionality nature
Appraisal theory · Context (archaeology · English as a lingua franca · Lingua franca · Linguistics · Phrase · Principle of compositionality · sort · Computer Science · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Social Psychology
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Elf
A Combined Corpus and Systemic-Functional Analysis of the Problem-Solution Pattern in a Student and Professional Corpus of Technical Writing
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |