![]() ![]() Proverbs contain some kind of wisdom, advice or warning. They are used to give a word of advice or warning, or to make a wise general comment on a particular situation. To qualify as proverbs, the sayings must be old contain some kind of enduring wisdom. Proverbs are idioms, Workman (1998 70) cited that: Proverbs are popular short sayings of a moral or practical nature. ![]() The readers ignore and do not understand the idioms used. But it is many of the expressions used by mediator are unable to interpret by the readers. ![]() Such as in media, either written or in electronic media, idioms are often found in magazines, newspapers and novels. ![]() They are commonly used in all types of language, informal and formal, spoken and written.” Today, the usage idiomatic expressions are often used in all sorts of speaking and writing. In brief, some idioms have various meanings depending on the contexts, because the meaning of idiomatic expressions only can be understood contextually.īased on Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms (1998: vi), “Idioms are a colorful and fascinating aspect of English. Lyons (in Maimunah, 2008: 12) stated that contextual meaning is the meaning of a word according to the situations in which they are used different situation might give a sentence in a different meaning. For example the English expression “caught red handed” means to be “obviously guilty of a crime.” (in Bahasa: “tertangkap basah.”). Hornby in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English (1995: 627) stated that “Idiom is a phrase of sentence that the meaning is not obvious through knowledge of the individual meanings of the constituent words but must be learnt as a whole.” In addition, idiomatic expressions can be just one or a group of words, and the meaning is not derived exclusively from the detonation of words comprising the expression. Wright (2002: 10) commented that translating an idiom from one language into another is not possible to do English idioms are something different from Indonesian idioms. In linguistic, idioms are usually presumed to be figure of speech contradicting the principle of compositionality yet the matter remains debated. ![]()
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