I Paint the Town Red: An Overview of English Idioms Through the Lens of Computational Corpus

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10.2991/assehr.k.210304.064How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Idioms, Corpus, Philosophical value, Transformation

Abstract

Idiomatic expressions are commonly used by the native speakers to express their idea. Aside from that, this linguistic term also brings the philosophical value of the speakers. The aims of this research are to investigate the philosophical value of the word red in English idioms and to examine the use of these idioms by using the corpus. A record maintenance data collecting technique is used to collect the data. The data were taken from American English Idioms Dictionary and English Corpus. The referential approach is used to analyze the data. The results show that the red color in English idioms has positive and negative contextual meaning. Moreover, during the use of these idioms from time to time, transformation and variation are found in the use of these terms in daily conversation.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - L. Septianasari
AU  - Triyanto
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/08
TI  - I Paint the Town Red: An Overview of English Idioms Through the Lens of Computational Corpus
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Paris Van Java International Seminar on Health, Economics, Social Science and Humanities (PVJ-ISHESSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 296
EP  - 299
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210304.064
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210304.064
ID  - Septianasari2021
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