Food and drink idioms in English : "a little bit more sugar and lots of spice" / by Laura Pinnavaia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinnavaia, Laura, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Idioms.

English language.

Food--Terminology.

Food.

Beverages--Terminology.

Beverages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Foreword

Chapter One

1.1. Introduction

1.2. The syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic nature of idioms

1.3. The ambiguity of the term 'idiom'

1.4. Conclusion

Chapter Two

2.1. Introduction

2.2. The lexicographical sources

2.3. The principles of selection

2.4. The corpus linguistic analysis

2.5. Conclusion

Chapter Three

3.1. Introduction

3.2. The food and drink lexemes

3.3. The food and drink idioms

3.4. The conventional metaphoric concepts

3.5. Conclusion

Chapter Four

4.1. Introduction

4.2. The first attestations

4.3. The process of standardization

4.4. The phenomenon of obsolescence

4.5. Conclusion

Chapter Five

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Johnson's 'Dictionary of the English Language'

5.3. Richardson's 'A New Dictionary of the English Language'

5.4. Twentieth- and twenty-first-century lexicography

5.5. Conclusion

Chapter Six

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Frequency

6.3. Variation

6.4. Communicative potential

6.5. Conclusion

Afterword

References.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-2485-X

OCLC:

1082259861