Idioms and Fixed Expressions in English Language Study before 1800 : A Contribution to English Historical Phraseology

Gabriele Knappe

ISBN 10: 3631528590 / ISBN 13: 9783631528594

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang, 2004

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This study represents the first critical examination of the contexts and ways in which idioms and fixed expressions of two or more words (phraseological units) such as let sleeping dogs lie , try one's luck or at hand were collected, commented upon and also analysed by English language scholars between about 1440 and 1800. The large-scale investigation surveys theoretical and practical approaches including proverb studies, treatises on rhetoric and style, foreign-language teaching, collections of phrases, bilingual and monolingual lexicography, translation, universal and philosophical language schemes, shorthand systems and English grammar books. This pioneering study is intended to contribute to the formation of English historical phraseology as a new subdiscipline in English linguistics.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Idioms and Fixed Expressions in English Language Study before 1800 : A Contribution to English Historical Phraseology
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631528590
• ISBN 13: 9783631528594
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 37D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 37 millimeters depth
• Weight: 872 grams

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Synopsis

This study represents the first critical examination of the contexts and ways in which idioms and fixed expressions of two or more words (phraseological units) such as let sleeping dogs lie, try one’s luck or at hand were collected, commented upon and also analysed by English language scholars between about 1440 and 1800. The large-scale investigation surveys theoretical and practical approaches including proverb studies, treatises on rhetoric and style, foreign-language teaching, collections of phrases, bilingual and monolingual lexicography, translation, universal and philosophical language schemes, shorthand systems and English grammar books. This pioneering study is intended to contribute to the formation of English historical phraseology as a new subdiscipline in English linguistics.

About the Author

The Author: Gabriele Knappe is lecturer of English Linguistics and Medieval Studies at the University of Bamberg where she has been teaching since 1991. The main focus of her current research is on historical linguistics and the history of linguistic thought.