A picture dictionary of English idioms (4/4) corvina logo

Szerző: Kövecses Zoltán
További szerzők: Tóth Marianne; Babarci Bulcsú
Cím: A picture dictionary of English idioms (4/4)
Alcím: Volume 4 : Thought and the mind
Megjelenési adatok: Eötvös University Press, Budapest, 1998. | ISBN: 963-463-055-3

coverimage In speaking a foreign language, we have all had the experience that we express ourselves in the simplest way possible. We tend to use direct, short, literal ways of speaking. We also tend to avoid what is colorful and imaginative. In short, what we leave out is idiomatic language. Since we have a tendency to leave out idioms, we cannot express our thoughts and feelings in their complexity and richness. Idioms are not just “ornaments” or “strange ways of speaking.” We need them to express ourselves as creative and imaginative human beings, and not like machines. This dictionary aims to help the reader become a more competent and creative human communicator in English. To learn idioms is not simply to learn a collection of phrases whose meaning is not predictable from the parts, like the “legendary” idiom kick the bucket for ‘to die.’ To learn idioms in a foreign language is to acquire a whole new way of speaking—one could say a new “mindset”—about a subject matter. So when we offer in this series of idiom dictionaries a number of idioms to talk about a variety of subject matters, we offer a new way of looking at these subject matters for a non-native speaker of English. The first volume of this series of idiom dictionaries contains idioms relating to the most common emotions (anger, fear, happiness, sadness, pride, shame, surprise, and disgust). Volume two of A Picture Dictionary of English Idioms contains idioms that have to do with the closely related field of human relationships, including love, sex, marriage, and friendship. Volume three focuses on the domain of actions and events and their various key aspects, such as state, change, cause, purpose, progress, difficulty, and means. Volume four, the present one, concentrates on idioms relating to thought and the mind. These are all conceptual areas that greatly abound in idioms in English and many other languages.
Kategóriák: Nyelvtudomány
Tárgyszavak: Nyelvoktatás, Anglicizmusok
Formátum: OCR szöveg
Típus: könyv

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Book cover
Title page
Impressum
Contents
Preface
5-8
The structure of chapters
9-10
Entries in the dictionary
11-12
Introduction: what are idioms?
13-32
The dictionary
33-156
   The mind
35-57
   Ideas
59-91
   Thinking-thought
93-111
   Learning-teaching
113-115
   Understanding-knowing
117-135
   Attention
137-139
   Memory
141-149
   Intelligence
151-156
Index
157-165
References and bibliography
167-171
Colophon
Verso