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In this article, the first work in the fantasy literature series, titled A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones, by George R. R. Martin will be analyzed in relation to the author's use of proverbs, in order to determine the role that these play in the narration and what their features are. This choice seems appropriate for the analysis of folklore elements, such as proverbs, given the popularity of the series and its presumed contribution to the spread of phraseology. In the analysis of this text, a rather interesting approach to proverbs emerges, one in which the author makes use of proverbs existing in the real world, as well as creates his own, ad hoc, for this literary composition. These occurrences seem particularly interesting and will be analyzed in detail to determine whether they produce the desired effect and whether they follow the expected use of proverbs in real life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study investigates the figurative idiomatic competence of Jordanian graduate students of English. It mainly focuses on students' strategies and errors when translating English idiomatic expressions into Arabic. The study analyzes the performance of two groups of graduate students in a translation task. The first group includes 18 M.A. students, whereas the second includes 18 Ph.D. students. The findings of the study indicate that Ph.D. students have slightly higher idiomatic competence than M.A. students, though the two groups perform poorly in the translation task. The findings also suggest that graduate students of English often rely on the context, metaphor, and knowledge of L1 to approach the meaning of English fixed figurative expressions. Furthermore, the findings show that paraphrasing and giving an Arabic equivalent are the most common translation strategies applied by graduate students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper deals with one of the manifestations of current innovative processes in phraseology, i.e. structural-semantic transformations of phraseological units in Russian and Slovak newspaper articles. The aim of this paper is to present an overview of structural-semantic transformations followed by a comparative Russian-Slovak analysis of creative modifications from selected journalistic sources and to summarize certain national-specific features of phraseological transformations in the given languages. Structural-semantic transformations include a spectrum of various types of modifications that affect both the structural and semantic levels of phraseological units. They are popular among journalists because they are an effective means to attract the recipient's attention, to increase the overall expressiveness of the newspaper articles, and to add semantic richness and imagery to transformed phraseological units. We will focus on insertion, substitution of components, phraseological paronomasia, contamination, and phraseological ellipsis. Each type of transformation is distinguished by its characteristic features and fulfils different functions in journalistic style, which we aim to determine throughout the analysis. Incorrect (or inappropriate) transformations of phraseological units are included in the material as well, even though they are not so frequent in journalistic practice. Structural-semantic transformations of phraseological units are widely used in both analysed Slavic languages; however, they appear to be more productive and richer in the Russian language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In describing the form of his Fourth String Quartet, Bartók employed the terminology of the German Formenlehre with which he was acquainted thanks to the teaching of Hans Koessler. Bartók's elucidation suggests that the models for the construction of thematic units, contrasts, developments and closing segments, which were normative for the sonata cycle in the nineteenth century, continued to exercise their influence despite the distance from functional tonality. An analysis of the five movements of the Fourth String Quartet with systematic reference to Bartók's synopsis shows that a subtle dialectic between adoption and transformation was at stake. The principles of traditional form gained new strength through the reinvention of harmonic structures, melodic lines and hypermetric groups. The symmetrical-architectural framework was preserved but filled with unconventional tone progressions, irregular phraseology, and a new sense for development and reprise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study focuses on the main mechanisms of recognition and decoding of phraseological units. The concepts of "discourse", "phraseological unit" and "cognition" have been investigated. By analyzing phraseological units' structure we have determined two ways of translation: phraseological translation and nonphraseological translation. Three main stages in the process of cognitive skills formation for recognition and adequate translation of phraseological units in the text on military themes were researched: the initial stage, the intermediate stage and autonomous stage. The hypothesis of our study is that the degree of recognition and adequacy of translation of phraseologies at military discourse depends on the cognitive skills formation upon subjects that were verified by the experiment conducted at the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi National Academy of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, which involved 75 cadets. The result of the experiment confirmed that there are close correlations between the level of cognitive skills formation and the degree of phraseology recognition and the correctness of their translation and between success in English and the degree of phraseology decoding and the correctness of their translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents the concept of a comparative topical dictionary of set similes, which allows to fully reflect the axiological parameters of phraseological material. The choice of the object of vocabulary description which is set similes (comparative phraseological units) is justified by their direct correlation with the category of evaluation and the individual value system. It is emphasized that in the act of phraseological nomination, axiologically oriented is the choice of the object of comparison that requires evaluation, and the image of comparison that refers the native speaker and the researcher to the sphere of origin of the turnover, to its history. These phraseological parameters have been thoroughly investigated on the material of various languages. However, bilingual dictionaries do not give a complete picture of the evaluative phraseological universals and the ethnocultural specifics of phraseological comparisons. A bilingual dictionary of a special type will help solve this problem, realizing the idea of parallel-contrastive representation of the material, which determines the relevance of our research presented in this article on the material of the Russian and Czech languages. The article deals with such theoretical issues of phraseology as the axiological potential of a comparative phraseological unit, the paradigmatics of the axiological space of comparative phraseology, axiological characteristics of the comparison standard, etc. Referring to the dictionary entries formed within the framework of the concept, the feasibility of multidirectional linguoaxiological development of set similes in two sections of the comparative dictionary has been proved: from the general phraseological image to the meaning of phraseological units and their axiological orientation as well as from the meaning of a phraseological unit to methods of associative-figurative transmission of evaluative connotations. In the first case, the phrase-forming potential of the figurative cores representing the model manifestations of the evaluated attributes is revealed, while ethnoculturally determined discrepancies of the axiological charge of the image are commented on. In the second case, the attribute itself is characterized from the standpoint of its practical significance for speakers of different linguistic cultures. A model of parallelcontrasting dictionary macro-entry structuring is presented: the filling of parametric zones, the features of metalanguage use, and the graphic ways of displaying types of figurative-axiological correspondences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on some of the fundamental tenets of the Lexical Approach, this article suggests two noticing and recording strategies of specialised lexis for class and independent use with B1-C2 students of English enrolled on university level ESP courses. Drawing on extensive personal teaching experience, the author weighs the pros and cons of both strategies, while also making the case for a more modern (digital) methodology to assist with their implementation through an informed empowerment of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to the rules of the Ministry of Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates, all students who desire to learn in any university must pass one of the standardized language tests to start their undergraduate studies. In the teaching context where the study took place, the majority of students struggle to score a 6.5 in the writing part of the IELTS exam, or 5 in the TOEFL test. The students' main weakness lies in their inability to develop their writing further; they struggle to expand on a sub-topic in the writing exam. The students' never-ending struggle to improve in writing; is because they tend to memorize the word without trying to study its different aspects, for example, what part of speech the word is or its collections. Accordingly, the study proposed the integration of the formulaic sequences to help them learn the different aspects of a word. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper illustrates the types of English borrowings contained in the Global Anglicism Database (GLAD) with a special focus on multi-word and phraseological units. GLAD is a newly-planned online lexicographic tool, currently in progress, designed to store the input of English borrowings in an open-ended number of languages. One of the major challenges posed by the building of GLAD's macrostructure is bringing together English borrowings in languages that have been differently influenced by English, not only because of diverse genetic and historical contacts but also because of different ways of integrating foreign loans, depending on their systems (through direct borrowing, adaptation or calquing) and their degree of openness to 'Anglicization'. Types of multi-word and phraseological units are presented and classified, drawing on entries already recorded in GLAD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Among the most characteristic features of Caribbean English (CE) lies its phraseology, namely the lexicalisation of concepts through linguistic specificities whose etymological roots are to be found in West African languages. Not only are such peculiarities widespread in spoken CE and English-based Creoles, but they are also illustrated in the extensive body of Caribbean English literature. By adopting an overarching definition of phraseology, this article aims at showing that phraseological units typically used in CE work as a cultural agent. Within the vast inventory of African substrate survivals, attention is paid to compound-like vocabulary items which are word-for-word translations of West African idioms into English rather than ex novo combinations of English lexemes. A sample of eight commonly-used compounds, all referring to parts of the body, was extracted from the Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage and then compared with entries - if any - in the Oxford English Dictionary Online and the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Online, the two reference works that are the pillars of English: although such phrasemes employ Standard English (SE) words, they do not mirror conventional SE lexical practices. Therefore, by looking at the images conveyed through their culture-specific phraseology, the article depicts the distinctly non-European worldview of West Africans transplanted to the Caribbean by European colonisers during the transatlantic slave trade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on some of the fundamental tenets of the Lexical Approach, this article suggests two noticing and recording strategies of specialised lexis for class and independent use with B1-C2 students of English enrolled on university level ESP courses. Drawing on extensive personal teaching experience, the author weighs the pros and cons of both strategies, while also making the case for a more modern (digital) methodology to assist with their implementation through an informed empowerment of students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Nowadays, sports play an important role in the world, both from the pure competitive (even emulative) and political point of view. The influence of sports is also traced here at the linguistic level: many words and expressions from the field of sports penetrate the language but, on the other hand, the sphere of sports itself becomes a fertile ground for the emergence of new expressive words and idioms having different stylistic and expressive colours that can perform various pragmatic functions. In the language of sports, lexical units often acquire a new meaning related to sports; in some cases, the meanings of already existing metaphorical phraseological models are actualized. The paper is devoted to the problem of the status and description of one of the types of phraseological units, i.e. stable comparisons, which are used in the sphere of sports or sports discourse in modern Russian and Ukrainian languages. On the one hand, these units have their origins in sports slang as well as in mass media language and also come from common phraseology and other discourses. On the other hand, such units have not only a high expressive level but they are often used as picturesque and metaphorical means in other discourses, e.g. political, social, or economic. Such expressions are nowadays very popular and commonly used both in spoken language (speech) and in mass media language. Stable comparisons are, in fact, a universally figurative and expressive means of language which can be used in any situation, context, and in any pragmatic field of language use. The sphere of sports is not an exception, where such language units fulfil various functions both in the language of sports journalism (oral reportages, articles on sports, internet communication and discussions in internet forums specializing in sports) and in the speech of the athletes themselves. This paper discusses some of the most commonly used stable comparisons in the sphere of sports (i.e. sports discourse) both in Russian and Ukrainian languages. The metaphorical models of such units are examined from the point of view of Russian-Ukrainian language convergence. It can be stated that the language of modern Russian sports journalism can be seen today to a certain extent as a possible (or potential) prototype for the development of Ukrainian-language sports discourse. Generally speaking, live contacts in interdiscourse sports communication, including the language of sports journalism, however, are still ongoing and active language interaction at the level of vocabulary and phraseology remains one of the most effective means of enriching the vocabulary of the national language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses similes of southern Slavs (Bulgarians and peoples of the former Yugoslavia, i.e. Bosnians, Serbs, Croats, and Montenegrins) with a semantically similar component such as an anthroponym of Oriental origin. The author deals with both outdated similes and those that are actively used nowadays. Orientalisms usually include words belonging to different groups of Turkic as well as Iranian and Arab-Semitic languages. Historical events and language contacts contributed to the borrowing of thematically diverse Orientalisms by South Slavic languages. The result of the five-century domination of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkan Peninsula is borrowing from the Old Ottoman (Old Turkish) language, which became both the source language and (often) the intermediate language through which Arabisms and Persisms entered the South Slavic recipient languages. Therefore, in Bulgaria, the term Turkish-Arabic-Persian words is used to refer to this vocabulary. In addition to the Arab-Persian elements, the old Ottoman language is rich in borrowings from other languages (e.g. Greek). The term Turkish usually refers to the vocabulary of the old Ottoman rather than the modern Turkish language. Due to the vastness of anthroponyms of Oriental origin as a special genetic layer of South Slavic vocabulary, the author analyzes the expressions that denote a person in such aspects as intelligence, gender, and occupation. Oriental vocabulary penetrated into the languages of Southern Slavs mainly through oral spoken language. The degree of penetration of Turkish words into the languages of the peoples of Southern Slavia is different. The outcome of borrowings also varies: they either remained in the recipient languages as exoticism, or have been completely assimilated in them. During semantic adaptation in the language that accepts Oriental vocabulary, there is sometimes an expansion or contraction of the meaning of a word. Many of the Turkish words that make up the comparison became historicisms and entered the passive vocabulary and in the modern language they are not used because of the disappearance of the realities they denote (for example, words associated with the system of administration in the Ottoman era). Another reason for transition into the passive vocabulary in the Balkans is the process of replacing the original words. The paper defines the functional, semantic, and stylistic status of Eastern vocabulary in different social and cultural layers (standard languages and dialects) of South Slavic similes. Due to historical reasons, the greatest number of borrowings from the Turkish language as a part of similes is observed in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as in Shtokavian dialects of Croatia. In addition to this, the author gives cultural, historical, and etymological comments to similes, analyzing the meaning of units and components that are parts of similes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]