2015 # 3 (11)
Krotova E.B.
Using of Idioms in the Context of the Suspended Assertion
Abstract
The article deals with German idioms in terms of corpus linguistics. The author gives a definition of suspended assertion, as well as an overview of factors triggering contexts with suspended assertion , and then goes on to apply the notion of suspended assertion to the analysis of some German idioms.
Key words
German idioms, corpus linguistics, contexts with suspended assertion
