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Idioms present a challenge not only to linguistic theory, but also to natural language applications. Despite a wealth of excellent literature on phraseology, in practice the linguistic information given in French dictionaries about idioms tends to be quite confusing and fragmented. The most substant...

AbstractTeaching and learning French phraseology are a major challenge for most French as a Foreign Language teachers. The understanding of phraseological units such as fixed expressions, collocations are indispensable factors for a good mastery of the foreign language, but when the learner is not f...

Phraseological units (PUs) should be part of a long-term acquisition process (Gonzalez-Rey 2007, Sułkowska 2016, Chen 2021). However, phraseodidactics are often ad-dressed only at the advanced-improvement level in teaching and textbooks (Gonzalez-Rey 2007, Chen 2021).Bilingual dictionaries are "the...

This contribution will analyze the synchronic motivation of idioms (such as se fendre la poire, ´to laugh uproariously`) by showing that, contrary to what the traditional approach implies, the processes of motivation in phraseology do not differ from those operating in the lexicon in general.A...