Publisher's Synopsis
Studying and teaching languages have come a long way from prescriptive - puritan to descriptive, authentic, and big data-driven. After the advent of digital and social media and citizen journalism ... books based on big data and authentic expressions are in demand. For those interested in languages and expressions of North American politics, political campaign, election, and how the senate and the congress work on politics and policies - this is a must-read book.
Extensive usages of everyday anthropomorphic and zoomorphic body part words fascinate me. Hence, whenever I read the North American news in digital and social media and come across body-part words in contexts with different metaphorical meanings, I have collected them. In this book you will find the result of this decade-old collection. This book compiles the 1000 authentic examples of body-part anthropomorphic and zoomorphic words and their metaphorical meanings.
The body-part entries are classified alphabetically from A-Z under the 129 body-part head-words. Then the 1000 expressions, i.e., collocations of the head-words, have been listed followed by their metaphorical definitions. Authentic, metaphorical usages of the English body-part words follow the definitions. The sources of the authentic examples have been listed last.
The authentic expressions have been collected from about fifty different North American digital and social media sources, of which 12.7% are Canadian, and 87.4% are from the US.
I invite you all to flip the book's pages and reflect on the phrase "skin in the game" and recall the "Radiohead" band and the "earmark" budgeting of the American congress to that of "chaps my hide". I am sure you will have an amazing journey!
