Meaning of idiomatology | Babel Free

Definitions

The study of idioms and idiomatic language

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Examples

“Mr. Alan Gardiner's Home Thoughts on Language emboldens one to ask⟳ whether there is not room for a science of Idiomatology* as a sister to Semantics.”

“His aim is language characterization as to its system, a kind of idiomatology.”

“If we were to identify⟳ the langue strictly with the object of linguistic description then one aspect of the problem of defining the langue would involve⟳ drawing the line between that aspect of the speakers’ knowledge of X which is relevant to a linguistic description of X and those aspects (the idiomatology) which are not.”

CEFR level