Idiomatic Expressions
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Animal Idiomatic Expressions in English and Kurdish: A Comparative Analysis
Lana Amanj, Raz Aziz Ahmed
Animal idioms are widespread across languages and cultures. Humans use animal idiomatic expressions to convey their messages and to make the language more interesting and richer. This study investigates the meanings of animal expressions in English and Kurdish languages. The idioms have been taken out from some idiomatic dictionaries in both languages. A large number of idioms have been taken out see appendix (A & B), but a group of them have been chosen for the purpose of analysis. The idioms have been categorized based on three prototypes; birds, fish: animals that live in water and do not have wings, and non-birds: all the other animals besides the two other types that have been mentioned. Moreover, the meanings of the animal idiomatic expressions have been analyzed according to their transparency and opacity along with their positive and negative connotations in daily situations and how people use them in conversations.
Volume 11 · Issue 6 · December 2024The Reflection of the Idiom in the Poetic Language by the poet Wali Diwana
Dawlat Mohammed Ahmed, Omer Abdulrehman Omer
Generally, Idiomatic expressions are characterized by great importance in creative texts and poetic texts in particular, because they have special connotations that express the extent of the poet's creative ability since the poets embody the content of their poems implicitly within the texts, in an attempt to increase the artistic taste of the reader. This study is entitled “The Reflection of the Idiom in the Poetic Language by the poet Wali Diwana”. We took the poems of the aforementioned poet as a sample for the poets of his time. In those days, the poets of southern Kurdistan, in general, implicitly expressed the living style and social conditions in their poems. The idiomatic expressions of all kinds were embodied in the poems of the above-mentioned poet, in a special style and technique, and this was reflected in the contents of his poems. The importance of this study turns out to be an applied study, and on the other hand, it opens the way for other researchers in the literary and linguistic fields to raise this issue in their studies.