..., such as capacity-building, community-based partnerships and centring the voice of the population with an emic lens. cultural adaptation fish traders global mental health HIV interventions idioms of distress Female fish traders, who travel long distances to buy fish from fishermen, process the fish and sell...

... for determining such well-formedness. Particular forms of phraseological units are typically distributed unevenly, and differences seen here are greater than in the case of lexemes. Many grammatical forms of a given idiom are applied in particular, appropriate situations in which the use of other forms of a given...

... whether the sensory–motor system contributes to the processing of abstract meaning and thought. We examined functional magnetic resonance imaging activation to idioms and literal sentences including arm- and leg-related action words. A common left fronto-temporal network was engaged in sentence reading...

... with Alzheimer's disease has been extensively studied, with the exception of non-literal language comprehension. However, in our speech, we often make use of expressions, which are not necessarily interpreted on a literal ground. Comprehension of metaphors and idioms was examined in 39 patients with probable early...

... frequent units is discussed, along with idioms, prefabs, and grammaticizing constructions. The frequency effects also suggest, however, that in addition to storage units, words, phrases, and constructions must also be processing units. The fact that some priming effects appear with constructions...

...Fig. 1 Fig. 2 This chapter considers a functional theory of dispositions. The first section describes non-linguistic reality and descriptive idioms. The second section considers the place of functionalist theory. The third section examines the varieties of functionalism. The fourth section...

... and distinctive idioms. East India Company Crimean War Indian Mutiny Royal Navy Alma battle of McGlennon Felix ‘Comrades’ Russell William Howard Times The Tylden Brigadier General Connaught Duke and Duchess of Coronation Durbar for Edward VII Curzon Viceroy and Lady Edward VII Elgar Edward Gilbert W...

.... Yet in Gogo Breeze's view of exploitation, the way forward lay not in charity but in the market. It was the morality of the market that he policed through investigative journalism and Chinyanja idioms. aid farmers government hierarchy nongovernmental organizations NGOs populism public service...

... analysis of standard idioms. The chapter destabilizes the standard idioms by putting a variety of philosophical arguments about the endlessness of interpretation into the humanly manufactured character of truth. It follows that in modern times we must see realities and established change, and the sooner...

...This chapter defines the dominant idioms of Polishness for every specific configuration of an imagined community, which allows us to draw an analytical model of the Polish national imagination of the 1830s–1840s. By analyzing the language intellectuals used when speaking about Polishness...

... and ‘generated’ sentences breaks down when one considers idiosyncrasy at the phrasal level such as idioms, on the one hand, and structure and compositional meaning within words, such as derivational morphology, on the other. This chapter introduces several current approaches to syntactic word-building...

...This chapter analyzes Béla Bartók's nationalism in the context of some of his compositions. It suggests that Bartók's symphonic poem Kossuth and his Rhapsody for Piano represent two contrasting approaches to bridging the gap between Hungarian idioms and learned compositional...

... Ulrichs' contention that, in order for sexual minorities to gain equal rights and social acceptance, dominant stigmatizing classificatory idioms must be replaced by new scientific terminology. Before they appeared in Kertbeny's anti-Prussian essays of 1869, the words heterosexuality...

... writers use the existing idiom and phraseology of a language even as they contribute new idioms and phrases to the community. Writers put ideas into words and words into new contexts and produce new ideas, phenomenon that the chapter illustrates by looking at the way in which the phraseology and idiom...

... be even more careful when working with special groups and psychiatric disorders, which are described further in this chapter. mental state assessment idioms of distress explanatory models psychosis anxiety elderly children and adolescents intellectual disabilities African Caribbeans Bhugra D...

..., My Blueberry Nights. Both films, despite their somewhat marginal standing in the Wong Kar-wai canon, are paradigmatic in that they rely heavily on pre-existing songs, and on popular idioms more generally. They provide perhaps the best demonstration yet that, despite endlessly looping mantras...

...In natural-language processing, multiword expressions (MWEs) have been the focus of much attention in their many forms, including idioms, nominal compounds, verbal expressions, and collocations. In addition to their relevance for lexicographic and terminographic work, their ubiquity in language...

... Arabic WSA cognitive linguistics Idioms non idiomatic expressions sense taxonomy based on metonymic–metaphorical extensions Kanuri chronological periods interval time conceptual metaphor S Tunisian Arabic STA semantic access in idiomaticity American English online mapping approach to idiom...

... to which Dickens is truly “inimitable” in comparison to his peers when it comes to his use of idiomatic language involving the body. It is not simply a matter of Dickens using a lot of body idioms; it is that he uses, by far, the greatest variety of them as well. The chapter then addresses why bodily...

.... This chapter focuses on one such proposed constraint, the ‘No Agent Idioms’ hypothesis of Marantz. It argues that this hypothesis is tenable, in spite of several proposed counterexamples to the generalization. Many apparent counterexamples are not true counterexamples as their argument structure has...