GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ENGLISH IDIOMS
Keywords:
Idiom, gender, gender-specific traits, gender marked differences , male and female languageAbstract
An idiom is phrase that, when taken as a whole has a meaning you
wouldn't be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words. There are many
idioms which are based on both of gender types that they have been contributing for
ornamenting linguistic features for many centuries. In this article, it will expound about
how there are aspects of idioms between genders, how there are differences of idiom in
types of genders and it will give contributing examples.
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