figurative expression
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffigurativeandexpression
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figurative
adjective
uk/ˈfɪɡ.ər.ə.tɪv/us/ˈfɪɡ.jɚ.ə.tɪv/
(of words and phrases) used not with their basic meaning but with a more imaginative meaning, in order to create a ...
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expression
noun
uk/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/us/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/
the act of saying what you think or showing how you feel using words ...
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(Definition offigurativeandexpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffigurative expression
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The task did not explicitly ask participants to use afigurativeexpression.
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Each story contains afigurativeexpressionand asks a question about its meaning.
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In such cases, thefigurativeexpressionhas a bivalent character, summarizing a prior topic and simultaneously pointing forward to another matter.
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Employing afigurativeexpressioncan be a device to summarize a topic, and thereby to draw it to a conclusion.
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This symmetry, or mutual orientation to the topically terminal implicativeness of a turn in which afigurativeexpressionhas been produced, is generally embedded in this topic transition sequence.
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Children might also have been uncertain of the pragmatic appropriateness of producing afigurativeexpression, not dissimilarly from what happens to second language learners.
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Ex. 14 begins to illustrate the force of that conjunction, along with the circumstances in which the production of afigurativeexpressiondoes not result in topical closure and transition.
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This type of activity lead him to deepen hisfigurativeexpression.
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Just what that organized practice, and what activities figurative expressions may be employed to perform in conversation, is the focus of this inquiry.
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When we adopted this analytic way of examining the collection of figurative expressions in our corpus, a very striking pattern emerged.
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So it is with figurative expressions and the topically terminal possibility their use occasions.
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The extent to which the figurative expressions commonly used in everyday conversations are linguistically and conceptually creative is an open and fairly neglected question.
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That is, the proper ties of figurative expressions, par ticularly their non-empirical or "general" applicability, are a resource for managing certain interactional tasks in conversation.
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This procedure was aimed at investigating whether the availability of the linguistic constraint ' is like ' would have an effect on the production of figurative expressions.
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The figurative expressions for emotions obtained higher scores than those referred to actions in all three scales.
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A comparative analysis is undertaken that identifies six types of relationship between figurative expressions in the two languages.
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