Astrid Fiedler

List of John Benjamins publications in which Astrid Fiedler is involved.

Article

Fiedler, Astrid 2016 Fixed expressions and culture: The idiomatic MONKEY in common core and West African varieties of English International Journal of Language and Culture 3:2, pp. 189–215 | Article

This case study examines variation in idiomatic fixed expressions (FEs) in British and West African varieties of English. Using a corpus of newspapers containing FEs with the source domain monkey, I contrast those expressions shared by both varieties — the Common Core — with those found only in… read more