Idioms in Salman Rushdies Novels

This book explores the use of idioms in Salman Rushdies eleven novels. Firstly, the key concepts in phraseology are discussed as a background to the study of Rushdies idiomaticity. Salman Rushdie is presented as a metaphorical and phraseological writer before the main tenets of phraseo-stylistics are addressed. Then the physical presence of idiomatic expressions in Salman Rushdies novels is examined and, finally, through close readings and textual analyses of Salman Rushdies works, the functionality of idioms employed by the author in his prosaic works is determined. This study establishes Salman Rushdies prose as highly idiomatic and the author as exceptionally creative when it comes to the deployment of idioms in literary texts.