ARTICLE REVIEW

Review an article about Idioms

Reviewed By: jepta.s 

Titel              : Idioms Categorization, lexical, representationand the question of compositionally

Post by          : Therese Vegge. Master's thesis University of Agder

pages             : 72 pages
Autors           : Therese Vegge
Supervisor   : Professor Dagmar Haumann

That master's thesis explor some the problem constituted by idioms, notably those related to their form and behavior.The authors subdivide idioms into two types: those whose meaning cannot be predicted on the basis of their constituent parts and those whose meaning can be predicted from their constituents.

The thesis concerns the flexibility idioms and question to investigate in this fleibility implies internal semantic structure,describing the complexity of the concept idiom and at explaning why we recognize these variant expression as belonging to the same category, what they really are.
Autors explor categorization with focus on prototype Theory, approach useful for understanding the function of language and idiom. Language is not only a set of syntactic and semantic rule it is also a reflection of how the human mind perceives the world. People categorize in order to make sense concepts. In order to translate these mental images into language, there must be a corelation between phonology, syntax, semantics and also conceptual structur.
example:

The idiom used in the survey:
compositional:
1.keep tabs on
2.break the ice
3.let the cat out of the bag
4.cross bridge
 Noncompositional
1.saw logs
2.shoot the breeze
3.kick the bucket

Strengness  :excess of this article has lot of explanation about caregorization of idiom in variety related to that form and behavior.
weakness:
The difficullty in finding a single and uniform definition  for idiom is related to the variant syntactic and semantic behavior of idiom.
conclusion:Similar to recognizing a physical object, the cognitive abilities of people perhaps play a part in recognizing the parts of the idiom and associating these meaning to the whole expression