This book examines how people understand utterances that are intended figuratively. Traditionally, figurative language such as metaphors and idioms has been considered derivative from more complex than ostensibly straightforward literal language. Glucksberg argues that figurative language involves the same kinds of linguistic and pragmatic operations that are used for ordinary, literal language.
The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer
Book Description
"Bite the bullet", " get on the stick",
"make no bones about it", " take the cake". The American Heritage(R)
Dictionary of Idioms covers almost 10,000 expressions. Its main fare
is, of course, idioms - groups of two or more words that together mean
something different from the literal meaning of the individual words.
In addition, this book discusses verb phrases such as " act up",
"freeze out", and " get down", figures of speech such as "dark horse"
and "blind as a bat", interjections and formulas like "says who" and "
tough beans", common proverbs like a "bird in the hand", and slang
terms such as "buy the farm" and "push up daisies". Each entry is
defined and has an example sentence showing the expression in context.
Most entries offer an explanation of the expression's literal meaning
or origin and include information about its first appearance in
English.
The Browser's dictionary of foreign words and phrases This handy, practical, and browsable A-to-Z reference tells you all you need to know to understand, pronounce, and appreciate the nearly 2,000 foreign words and phrases commonly used by speakers and writers of English. The Browser's Dictionary covers a wide variety of subject areas and includes loan-words from more than sixty languages around the world. In addition, each entry provides: A guide to pronunciation using easy-to-understand transcriptions from ordinary English Comprehensive literal and idiomatic definitions The word’s source language, as well as its literal meaning
Словарь иностранных слов для англоязычных граждан (2000), наиболее часто используемых в письменной и устной речи. Mary Varchhaver and Frank Ledlie Moore.
