Long Time, No Buzz: Fixed Expressions as Constructional Frames
This paper explores the variability of fixed expressions in English from a constructionist perspective. The analysis comprises two kinds of such expressions: traditional aphoristic sequences (e.g., Once bitten, twice shy) and recent popular quotes (e.g., And now for something completely different)....
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| Τόπος έκδοσης: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes, |
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| Μορφή: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Γλώσσα: | Anglais |
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CogniTextes
2010
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | This paper explores the variability of fixed expressions in English from a constructionist perspective. The analysis comprises two kinds of such expressions: traditional aphoristic sequences (e.g., Once bitten, twice shy) and recent popular quotes (e.g., And now for something completely different). The analysis shows that in both cases these ready-made templates are used productively as constructional frames in which certain slots are filled by different lexical items (e.g. Once bitten, twice bankrupt; And now for something else), occasionally also involving the reshaping of the syntactic pattern (e.g., Once Biden, twice shy; And now for something completely Madonna), but keeping the overall form-meaning-use correspondence in the constructional frame clearly recognizable. The findings are further interpreted using the notions of conceptual blending and intertextuality in everyday language use, contextualized in a constructionist framework. |
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