METAPHORICAL REPRESENTATION OF HUMAN STATES IN ENGLISH IDIOMS
Keywords:
Idioms, figurative language, emotional state, linguistics, metaphor, phraseology, person’s condition.Abstract
This article shows that “English idioms that describe a person’s state”. It includes a human’s physical,emotional,and psychological states.Idioms play an important role in understanding how language reflects human experiences.Many linguists such as Fernando, Nunberg, Gibbs, Lakoff &Johnson have studied idioms and their figurative meanings.This article explains their contributions and analyzes how idioms help express complex humanbeing emotions in a simple,memorable way.
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