Color idioms in different languages

2.2. Comparison and analysis of color idioms meaning …………………………………....21
CONCLUSIONS …………………………………………………………………………..……30
SUMMARY IN LITHUANIAN ………………………………………………………….…….31
REFERENCES ……………………………………………………………………………….…32
APPENDICES …………………………………………………………………………………..34
INTRODUCTION
One of the aspects of a language and maybe the most irreverent of them is the idioms. The discussion around idiomatic expressions is either on how to define them or at the range of situation they might be presented into the language.
Idioms are the phrases and sentences that do not mean exactly what they say. They are fixed and are recognized by native speakers. You cannot make up your own idioms. Idioms use language in a non-literal – metaphorical – way. (Wright, Thomson/Heinle. 1999, pg. 9). Even if you know the meaning of every word, you may not understand the idiom because you do not understand the culture behind it. Every language has idioms and learning them is an important aspect of the mastery of a language. The English language is not an exception as it contains a large number of idioms.
The definition of term “idiom” is suggested in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (2003): “Idiom is a group of words that has a special meaning that is different from the ordinary meaning of each separate word”. There are equivalents of this term in Lithuanian and Russian languages. The Lithuanian definition is as follows: “idiomos – nemotyvuoti frazeologizmai (jų vientisinė reikšmė visiškai nesiremia jų sandais virtusių žodžių reikšmėmis)”. (Morkūnas, 1999).
Several criteria have been suggested in the literature to define idioms. Attempts have been made to classify idioms in a variety of ways including semantically, syntactically, and functionally (Grant & Bauer, 2004, pg. 8). Lists of idioms in dictionaries and teaching texts provide a heterogeneous set of items under this heading (Grant & Bauer, 2004 pg. 76). The term ‘idiom’ has been used to encompass a wide variety of different types of multi-word items (MWIs). MWIs are...

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