英语基础写作2.ppt

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1、CommonFeaturesofEnglishIdiomsForfurtherunderstandingaboutidiomsandtheiroriginsmakeakillingE.g.Hermothermadeakillingontherealestatemarketbeforesheretired.nosweatE.g.Nosweat.Iwillhelpyoualldaytomorrowifyouneedme.otherfishtofryE.g.Ithinkhehasotherfishtofryandwill

2、notbecontenttocontinuewithhiscurrentjob.outofthefryingpanandintothefireE.g.Whenhechangedjobshewentoutofthefryingpanandintothefire.Hisnewjobismuchworse.sureaseggsiseggsE.g.Don’tworry.Youwillgetthescholarship,sureaseggsiseggs.Whyweshouldlearnidioms?“mostEnglishs

3、peakersutterabout10millionnovelmetaphorsperlifetimeand20millionidiomsperlifetime.Thisworksouttoabout3,000novelmetaphorsperweekand7,000idiomsperweek”Pollio,Barlow,Fine,andPollio(1977)Whyweshouldlearnidioms?AdvancedL2learnershavetheadvantageoftargetlanguagelearn

4、ing,buttheyalsohaveadisadvantageinnotunderstandingidiomsofthetargetlanguagewhichwillappearinnewspapers,movies,magazines,booksanddailyconversations.Idiomsaresofrequentlyusedinspokenandwrittenlanguagethattheyrequirespecialattentioninlanguageteaching.Idioms:defin

5、itionAnexpressionthatdoesnotmeanwhatitliterallysays.Astablecombinationofwordswithafullyorpartiallyfigurativemeaning.twoinherentandveryimportantfeaturesintermsoflanguageperse.Semanticunity(语义统一性)Structuralstability(结构固定性)SomeothercommonfeaturesEthnicfeatures(民族

6、性)Stylisticfeatures(文体特色)Rhetoricalfeatures(修辞特色)FeaturesofIdiomsSemanticunitythevariouswordswhichmakeuptheidiomhavetheirrespectiveliteralmeanings,intheidiomtheyhavelosttheirindividualmeaning.decomposableandnon-decomposable.E.g.RaincatsanddogsE.g.tillthecowsco

7、mehomeE.g.Wearone’sheartuponone’ssleeveE.g.showthewhitefeatherStructuralStabilitythestructureofanidiomistoalargeextentunchangeable(i)Theconstituentsofidiomscannotbereplacedandthestructureisfixed.E.g.inabrownstudy:deepinthoughtE.g.lipservice:thesupportonlyinwor

8、ds,notinfactE.g.toburythehatched:tocometofriendlyorpeacefulterms.(ii)Thewordordercannotbeinvertedorchanged.E.g.bytwoandthreesE.g.titfortat:eyeforeyeE.g.thelion’sshare(iii)Theconsti