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oai:meral.edu.mm:recid/00008416 2022-11-30T07:23:25Z 1582963788001:1582966193982

Idiomatic Properties in This Is Me Letting You Go by Heidi Priebe Thae Ei Ei Nyein Phyo C Thu "Nowadays, most of the youths become enthusiastic and interested in reading self-help books that can encourage them whenever they try to gain their achievements and escape from unpleasant situations. Self-help book writers use a lot of innovative words and beautiful idioms to catch the readers’ attention and make them motivated. Therefore, the present research is concerned with the idiomatic properties in the self-help book. The objectives of the research are to classify the idiomatic properties in the self-help book and to investigate the effects of the idiomatic properties in the selected book. To fulfill the objectives of the research, This Is Me Letting You Go by Heidi Priebe is applied for collecting data, based on the theory proposed by Nunberg, Sag and Wasow (1994) is used as an analytical tool in the present research. It is found that conventionality fits with all the idioms in the selected book and informality is mostly found among the properties apart from conventionality. It can be said that the writer has a wide knowledge of phrasal verbs to give the right message implicitly since most of the idioms in the selected book fitting with informality are phrasal verbs. It can also be concluded that each property of idioms can highlight the message of the facts presented in the selected book to be more effective for the readers and not to be bored with reading the selected book. Finally, it can be suggested that not only written but also spoken discourse can be applied to investigate idiomatic properties to make EFL learners get better understanding of the use of idioms in their learning." 2022-08-12 https://meral.edu.mm/records/8416