A Comparative study between English and Indonesian idiomatic expressions

Abstract

According to Hornby (1987:473), "language is a human method of communicating ideas, feelings, and desires by Maans of system of sounds and sound symbols". Meanwhile, Anne and Peter (1974:76) In their book Language and Community state: it is to this total capacity for using language in everyday life that we give the label 'language for living'. The name itself reflects the basic Idea that without language there can be no community. no shared activity, no shared experience, one might say, indeed 'no living'. From the statement above, it can be concluded that language Is very significant and cannot be separated from human life.