Idioms as Pragmatic Messages

This study argues that idiomatic expressions are essentially used as pragmatic messages which heavily laden with implicatures and/or contextual effects. implies not pure propositional elements necessarily have (non-compositional) semantic content, whereas any affiliated context. In this study, we defend an alternative view idioms composed of fixed plus a variant speaker-related meaning. order to show this, the current draws on data from Jordanian Arabic (JA) and judgement survey where 30 speakers asked about difference respect certain meaning when delivered through use expression or equivalently content