Guarded Hope

With contributions by Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt & Zoltán Gotthardt / Manana Rusieshvili-Cartledge & Rusudan Dolidze / Outi Lauhakangas / Liisa Granbom-Herranen / Marina Yu Kotova / Olesya S. Sergienko / Irina Zimonyi-Kalinyina / Sunil Sharma / Chunyi Lei / Ludmila Torlakova / Barbara Kovačević & Ivana Vidović Bolt / Tamás Forgács / Isabel Andúgar Andreu / Ariel Novodvorski / Dessislava Stoeva-Holm / Hanno Biber / M.ª del Pilar Lojendio Quintero / Svetlana Y. Pavlina / Anda Rădulescu & Alice Ionescu / Salif Guibila / José Luis Rojas Díaz, Juan Manuel Pérez Sánchez & Alejandro Arroyave Tobón / Sarah Del Grosso / Jacek Kudera, Irina Stenger, Philip Georgis, Bernd Möbius, Tania Avgustinova & Dietrich Klakow / Wenke Mückel / Elżbieta Dziurewicz & Joanna Woźniak / Thomas A. Hammond / Marie Kopřivová / Abigail Walsh, Teresa Lynn & Jennifer Foster / Jingrao Li, Rui Yan & Agnès Tutin / Manon Hayette & Kevin Henry / Antonio Pamies-Bertrán / Jens Fleischhauer / Valentina Piunno / Gina Russo / Anna Chiara Pagliaro / Birgit Füreder

Phraseology, the study of idiomatic expressions and constructions in the broadest sense, never ceases to fascinate linguists, learners, and language lovers. Practicing a native or foreign language at high proficiency level requires a complex understanding of all its figurative and idiomatic meanings. Behind these meanings lie many cultural references, inherited from the history of nations and their traditions. Finally, translation, even in the age of artificial intelligence, comes up against the obstacle of idiomaticity, which is often difficult to render in a target language. This book contains selected contributions presented at the Europhras 2021 international conference (Louvain-la-Neuve, September 6-9, 2021). They cover a wide range of scientific disciplines related to idiomaticity: in particular, the study of proverbs (paremiology), cultural and contrastive studies, translation studies, corpus-based studies, and automated methods.