With the development of globalization,the interaction between language and culture has become increasingly intertwined.Metaphor,as a crucial cultural linguistic phenomenon,not only plays an important role in everyday ...
Proverbs in TFA (Things FallApart) (1958) should not only be seen as unique performances, but also as specific encapsulations of ideological and sociocultural accretions of the Igbo people in Nigeria. The avalanch...
This paper appraises the use of proverbs by the characters in Ola Rotimi's monarchical tragedies: The Gods Are Not to Blame (1971b), Kurunmi (1971a), and Ovonramwen Nogbaisi (1974). In an analysis of selected ...
The study of meaning is a challenging aspect of linguistic analysis. Since understanding is the basis of linguistic communication, studying utterance meaning is very important in language study. Unfortunately, not all...
This study is based on corpora of animal expressions in English and Persian. In this study, "dog" expressions are examined based on Hsieh's (2006) approach of semantic molecules to explore the salient meanings an...