Pet Animal Idiomatic Expressions in English and Kurdish: A Pragmatic Analysis

Animal idioms are widespread in daily life; they have become inextricably linked to human existence and language. Additionally, acquired additional attributive connotative meanings – which differ from one culture another - addition their literal lexical meanings. not well-investigated, especially a pragmatic point of view. These set expressions vary language as well. Hence, this paper examines pet animal idiomatic perspective. The adopts qualitative method for the analysis samples. It focuses on similarities differences both English Kurdish languages terms three concepts; cooperative principles, implicature, politeness. Only animals, namely bird, fish, mouse been selected be studied analyzed thoroughly. samples study collected reliable dictionaries other resources. findings show that some names different frequencies using, i.e., used more rather than Kurdish, vice versa. There many contrasts meaning utilizing languages. was also found out animals violate all maxims get meaning; most common type implicature is conversational negatively