Тема дипломной работы: Idioms in English and American songs

Подробно рассмотрены идиомы английского языка.

Introduction

This work is devoted to the analysis of the usage idioms in English and American songs, on the example of popular and retro songs. The use of idioms has a great influence in the teaching and learning process of a foreign language, because it could be one of the ways to give students better conditions to improve communicative skill in the daily context. English is a language particularly rich in idioms - those modes of expression peculiar to a language (or dialect) which frequently defy logical and grammatical rules. Without idioms English would lose much of its variety and humor both in speech and writing. The back-ground and etymological origins of most idioms is at best obscure. This is the reason why a study of differences between the idioms of American and British English is somewhat difficult. With idiom we can create lyric of song more beautiful.

The aim of our research is to analyse the usage of idioms in English and American songs.

The object of the work is phraseology of the English language.

The subject of the work is idioms in English and American songs.

The hypothesis of the work runs as follows: Idioms used in English and American songs make them authentic, more expressive, vivid, and imaginative.

The objective of the work is an attempt to study the aspects of idioms, the cases of their usage and to analyze the frequency of idioms. To achieve the set aim we determine the following objectives:

 to classify idioms;

 To find idioms in songs;

 to understand the aim of the modern usage of idioms;

 to distinguish different kinds of idioms;

 To consider the functions of idioms

 To analyse the results of the research