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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II
DISCUSSION
1. COLLOCATION and IDIOM
A. Collocation
Based on Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, collocation is a combination of words in a language that happens very often and more frequently than would happen by chance.
Collocation is a term to refer to words that tend to appear together or words that tend to keep company. Frequent examples of collocation are onomatopoeic words, that is, words which are formed by imitating the sounds associated with the thing concerned. Some examples are:
A horse neighs
A cat mews/ meows
A cock crows
A hen cackles
A cow moos
A buffalo bellows
A goat bleats
A sheep bleats
An elephant trumpets
A snake hisses
A mouse squeaks
A duck quacks
A dog barks
A dog whines
A bee hums
A bee buzzes A bird chirps
Nida (1964:98) in Palmer (1982:76) gives examples of collocation of the word chair, like:
Sat in a chair
The baby’s high chair
The chair of philosophy
Has accepted a University chair
The chairman of the meeting
Will chair the meeting
The electric chair
Condemned to the chair
Palmer explores some other examples of collocation, such as: blond hair, rancid bacon, rancid butter, addled brains, addled eggs, sour milk, pretty child, buxom woman, flock of sheep, herd of cows, school of whales, pride of lions. (1982:76-79)
B. Idioms
Based on Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, an idiom is a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of individual words.
An idiom is also a type of collocation, which there is a big difference between a collocation and an idiom. In most collocations, the conceptual meaning of the words that collocate is maintained, while in an idiom, the meaning of the idiom cannot be traced from the meaning of the individual words that collocate. An idiom is a group of words with a new meaning, which is quite different from the meaning of the words individually. Some English idioms are:
Idiom
Meaning
Put up with
Tolerate, endure
Live from
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II
DISCUSSION
1. COLLOCATION and IDIOM
A. Collocation
Based on Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, collocation is a combination of words in a language that happens very often and more frequently than would happen by chance.
Collocation is a term to refer to words that tend to appear together or words that tend to keep company. Frequent examples of collocation are onomatopoeic words, that is, words which are formed by imitating the sounds associated with the thing concerned. Some examples are:
A horse neighs
A cat mews/ meows
A cock crows
A hen cackles
A cow moos
A buffalo bellows
A goat bleats
A sheep bleats
An elephant trumpets
A snake hisses
A mouse squeaks
A duck quacks
A dog barks
A dog whines
A bee hums
A bee buzzes A bird chirps
Nida (1964:98) in Palmer (1982:76) gives examples of collocation of the word chair, like:
Sat in a chair
The baby’s high chair
The chair of philosophy
Has accepted a University chair
The chairman of the meeting
Will chair the meeting
The electric chair
Condemned to the chair
Palmer explores some other examples of collocation, such as: blond hair, rancid bacon, rancid butter, addled brains, addled eggs, sour milk, pretty child, buxom woman, flock of sheep, herd of cows, school of whales, pride of lions. (1982:76-79)
B. Idioms
Based on Oxford Learner’s Dictionary, an idiom is a group of words whose meaning is different from the meanings of individual words.
An idiom is also a type of collocation, which there is a big difference between a collocation and an idiom. In most collocations, the conceptual meaning of the words that collocate is maintained, while in an idiom, the meaning of the idiom cannot be traced from the meaning of the individual words that collocate. An idiom is a group of words with a new meaning, which is quite different from the meaning of the words individually. Some English idioms are:
Idiom
Meaning
Put up with
Tolerate, endure
Live from