The isolation of lexical item ‘tea’ from ‘spill the tea’ among Malay twitter users
The appropriation of idioms in everyday communication has been a norm among language users. Lately, the use of only a single lexical item in an idiomatic phrase has been widely used especially by social media users. The use of isolated lexical item ‘tea’ from ‘spill the tea’ has been used extensivel...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2019
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14325/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14325/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14325/1/35389-110905-1-SM.pdf |