The central point of discussion is how idiom motivation is reflected in the Conventional
Figurative Language Theory. Most lexical units are motivated to a certain extent, ie they …

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. Frank H. Clark
Playing with language has a very long tradition, and its popularity today is particularly …

The paper represents an attempt to reveal the internal choreography of idiom modification. It
is argued that modified idiomatic expressions can be explained using the postulates of the …

Сажетак U ovom radu razmatra se uloga doslovnih pozadinskih mehanizama u formiranju
okazionalizama idiomskih skupina. Naime, Moon (1998: 120) ukazuje na činjenicu da …

The paper represents an attempt to reveal the internal choreography of idiom modification. It
is argued that modified idiomatic expressions can be explained using the postulates of the …

This paper examines factors that affect the comprehension of novel and conventional
idiomatic expressions by second language students of English. Using the Conventional …

This paper analyzes image macros via the theoretical framework of conceptual blending on
the example of online responses to 2011 and 2012 doomsday predictions. To date …

Sažetak The paper addresses the applicability of conceptual integration theory in the study
of political cartoons, actually the role of modified idiomatic expressions in the process of …

The long-standing view that idioms are formally and thus also semantically fixed has been
challenged and many studies have shown that idioms are indeed flexible both structurally …

The starting point of this paper is a particular idiom category. It deals with idioms that contain
determinative compounds of a special kind. The first element of the compound points to the …