IDIOMS AS LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS
1 Department of English and Literary Studies Bingham University Abuja, Department of English and Literary Studies Kogi State University Anyigba
* Corresponding author: onucheyobagaji2010@yahoo.com
* Corresponding author: onucheyobagaji2010@yahoo.com
Abstract
All idioms have at least two meanings; the linguistic
meaning of the words and phrases themselves, and the
stipulated idiomatic meaning. The meaning of idioms can
be acquired, while that of the familiar idioms could either be
retrieved or transformationally generated. Retrieval would
be accomplished by direct access to stipulated idiomatic
meaning, while generation would be realized by ordinary
linguistic processing by applying the contextually suitable
idiomatic meanings of the constituent words. This article
exploits issues which concern idioms as linguistic
expressions. It deals largely with those tenets of idioms as
linguistic phenomena. Thus, it focuses on salient data on the
structure and meanings of idioms which were collected for
linguistic analysis. Among others, the work covers idiomatic
creativity, polysemous hypothesis, concept of minimalism,
phrase versus words, semantic compatibility consideration,
anaphoric referent, idiomatic variants, morphotactic and
idioms allowable combination, infixational elements and
idiomatic compound. The work adopts canonical theory of
idiomatic analysis.
Keywords
Cannonical
Competence
Idioms
Linguistic Performance.
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How to Cite
FRIDAY, O. A. (2022). IDIOMS AS LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS. Humanity - Jos Journal Of General Studies, 13(1), 139-144. https://doi.org/10.67862/hjjgs.2022.odug2ny2
O. A. FRIDAY, "IDIOMS AS LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS," Humanity - Jos Journal Of General Studies, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 139-144, January 2022. doi: 10.67862/hjjgs.2022.odug2ny2
