idiomatology

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The study of idioms and idiomatic language uncountable
    — Mr. Alan Gardiner's Home Thoughts on Language emboldens one to ask whether there is not room for a science of Idiomatology* as a sister to Semantics.

词源

From idiomatic + -ology. Contemporary use is traced to George W. Grace in the unpublished 1977 paper "Language: An Ethnolinguistic Essay". However, the term had been coined at least twice previously in the same sense.
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