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[Snow White Queen]

sisters and brothers

I'm
actually doing a research about certain similarities and diffrences
between our target culture à-(Algerian) and Britsh one and I need your
contribution to make it fruitful

Well
my research resides around our daily use of metaphors, they way we use
them and how much they tell about our culture. One example is the way
British people say "Time is money' while we say  "kol 3otlzz fiha kheir"

So what do you guys think?

[Lilia]

 

I remember talking about this in class and the teacher asking us if cussing in a another language had the same impact as cussing in your own language! 

How do you like us to help you? Literary as in books and essays or by giving you concrete examples?

[Snow White Queen]

Well dirst thanks for replying Lilia 

Any of your kind contributions will be welcomed and appreciated

 

I remember talking about this in class and the teacher asking us if cussing in a another language had the same impact as cussing in your own language! 

How do you like us to help you? Literary as in books and essays or by giving you concrete examples?

[Omeymaa]

I like how in the metaphors you've used as examples, the British value time, whereas the Algerians don't 'koul 3ottlafiha khier'.

 

At the top of my head I can only think of 'glued to'

 

Algerian: Nhar kamel lasqa f television.

British: He's always glued to that TV.

 

You could use this, they've got tons of metaphors listed 

[Lilia]

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For now all I can think about is "Aandeh el nif" translating to "He has a nose" when it means "he's got pride" 

and "ki ynawer el melh" and the English version of it when pigs fly/ when he** freezes over

I'll come back with more

[Snow White Queen]

Thank you girld for your contributions 

[Lilia]

Here you go @Snow White Queen, a bunch of books that I hope would be of some help to you, if only to quote definitions. 

 

Confronting Metaphor in Use: An applied linguistic approach (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series) by Mara Sophia Zanotto, Lynne Cameron and Marilda C. Cavalcanti (Mar 27, 2008)

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Metaphors & Analogies: Power Tools for Teaching Any Subject by Rick Wormeli (Oct 5, 2009)

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Metaphor (The New Critical Idiom) by David Punter (Jul 20, 2007)

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If you need something else more specific, you just ask ^^

[Snow White Queen]

Lilia, you are very kind person, May Allah reward you    . These books are  very helpul, thanl you loads