The language is a means of forming and storing ideas as reflections of the reality and exchanging them in the process of human intercourse. It is social by nature and is inseparably connected with the people who are its creators …
The metaphor in Alice’s Advertures by Lewis Carroll
In linguistics, phraseology is the study of set or fixed expressions, such as idioms, phrasal verbs, and other types of multi-word lexical units (often collectively referred to as phrasemes), in which the component parts of the expression take on a …
The Language of SMS
The mobile phones and the short-text messaging service are two social phenomena much marvelled at and commented upon by most of us. Perhaps, this is explained by the fact that they allow people to communicate with each other more easily …
The expressiveness of euphemism in the speeches of female politicians
Discourse can be considered as a process of oral communication in real life, in which the important role is played by the system characteristics of the language, degree of spontaneity, fullness, thematic coherence and clarity of speech. On the other …
The Australian Slang
The slang is, probably, one of the most difficult aspects of the English language because it has many variations in every town and city. Every culture and even every region across the globe has its own slang. Some of them …
The Analysis of the Noun + Noun Phrases Used in the Play Death of a Salesman Analysis
In this section we are going to analyze the noun + noun phrases used in the play “Death of a Salesman” written by famous American playwright and essayist Arthur Miller. This drama has been numbered on the short list of …
Teaching English through Conversation
“Speaking” in traditional methodologies usually meant repeating after the teacher, memorizing a dialogue, or responding to drills, all of which reflect the sentence-based view of proficiency prevailing in the audio-lingual and other drill-based or repetition based methodologies of the 1970s. …
Phraseological units in English and in Armenian (contrastive analysis)
The vocabulary of a language is enriched not only by words but also by phraseological units. A phraseological unit is a lexicalized, reproducible bilexemic or polylexemic word group in common use, which has relative syntactic and semantic stability, may be …
Inversion
In linguistics, inversion is any of several grammatical constructions where two expressions switch their canonical order of appearance, that is, they invert. So, the most frequent type of inversion in English is subject–auxiliary inversion, where an auxiliary verb changes places …
Discourse markers and peculiarities of their translation
Discourse analysis is a general term for a number of approaches to analyze written, vocal, or sign language use or any significant semiotic event. The objects of discourse analysis—discourse, writing, conversation, communicative event—are variously defined in terms of coherent sequences …