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Essay On Idioms

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INTRODUCTION

The aim of the present paper is to analyse idioms related to human body parts from/in English and Romanian from a semantic and syntactic perspective and the translational principles used in translating them. Idioms have been universally introduced in all languages in a natural way; according to several significant factors: linguistic, cultural, historical, etc. Their spreading has always been “by word of mouth”, i.e. through the traditional oral path and by way of written documents, either in a source language only, or both in a source language and target language form. The translated documents (target language texts) will be the basic reference in the present paper, on account of the relative (in) translatability of idioms.
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Defining Idioms

Various opinions regarding idioms have been stated in the course of time ways and consequently, many of them differ in one aspect or another. One interesting definition comes from Langlotz which defines idioms as “peculiar linguistic constructions” and which come in various syntactic forms and in different discursive contexts. He himself stated the fact that idioms are hard to define and to explain. This is why learners of a new language can encounter difficulty in understanding them and their only resort is to learn them by heart.
Another significant remark comes from Nunberg et al. who maintained that idioms belong to a “fuzzy category” which is opposed to that of fixed phrases, clichés, collocations - all these terms altogether, including the idioms “inhabit the ungoverned country between lay metalanguage and the theoretical terminology of linguistics”. (Nunberg, 1994, p. 492) Rosamund Moon gave a rather simple and concise definition: “an idiom is a particular lexical collocation or phrasal lexeme, peculiar to a language” . Also, she provided a good example which demonstrates the peculiarity of idioms and the different uses of idioms in English and

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