This study aimed to investigate how Iranian EFL learners performed in producing sentences containing idioms and whether they had any problems in producing such sentences. This query, subsequently, raised the question of whether idioms influenced the participants’ grammaticality judgment on idiom-containing sentences. For this purpose, firstly, the writings of 24 learners were investigated for a...

The Colombian film industry is growing and gaining relevance in the international market, which demands products that comply with highest quality standards. Consequently, a study was designed to analyze current English subtitle of five films participated different festivals from 2012 2018 won at least one award: La sirga by William Vega (2012), playa D.C. Juan Andrés Arango (2013), Tierra en la...

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Despite flourishing research on the relationship between emotion and literal language, and despite the pervasiveness of figurative expressions in communication, the role of figurative language in conveying affect has been underinvestigated. This study provides affective and psycholinguistic norms for 619 German idiomatic expressions and explores the relationships between affective and psycholin...

This study aimed to determine the language needs of employees in multinational companies. Results revealed that most have taken English courses or ESP training besides their formal education. Among skills, though speaking is often used workplace but them believe they need improve all skills -- speaking, listening, reading and writing resolve issues. For encounter problems like inability speak w...

Much work on idioms has focused on type identification, i.e., determining whether a sequence of words can form an idiomatic expression. Since an idiom type often has a literal interpretation as well, token classification of potential idioms in context is critical for NLP. We explore the use of informative prior knowledge about the overall syntactic behaviour of a potentially-idiomatic expressio...

This paper1 discusses the use of recursive chunking of large German corpora (over 300 million words) for the identification and partial classification of significant lexical cooccurrences of adjectives and verbs. The goal is to provide a fine-grained syntactic classification of the data at the levels of subcategorization and scrambling. We analyze the combinatory preferences of adjectives with ...

We present an annotation study on a representative dataset of literal and idiomatic uses of infinitive-verb compounds in German newspaper and journal texts. Infinitive-verb compounds form a challenge for writers of German, because spelling regulations are different for literal and idiomatic uses. Through the participation of expert lexicographers we were able to obtain a high-quality corpus res...

Given the importance of idiomatic meaning expressions, especially for EFL teachers who have responsibility writing research, so present study aims at testing ability (40) in Nineveh schools post-graduate certificates and work schools, to identify two types some sentences. The researcher prepared a test consisting items; each item consisted four options, one is correct. Two idioms are included w...