La gènesi dels somatismes: accions humanes fossilitzades

• Authors: Elena Sánchez-López

Title variants

EN

The origin of somatisms: frozen human actions

Abstracts

EN

Somatic idioms – those including a part of the body – have been traditionally studied from a synchronic perspective, yielding different explanations for their semantic value. The main objective of this paper is to highlight the diachronic origin of idiomatic meaning, by illustrating the process of phraseologization from a historical, usage-based perspective. As the first step, we will reflect on the general nature of phraseological meaning, and then on the semantic particularities of somatic idioms. Secondly, we will carry out a corpus-based diachronic analysis of the Catalan idiom tapar-se el nas (to hold one’s nose) within the framework of the Invited Inference Theory of Semantic Change. The different stages of the process will be exemplified and discussed. As a result, a new notion of somatic idioms as frozen human actions will be presented.

Keywords

EN

somatic idioms; phraseologization; usage-based; corpus linguistics; inferences

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Romanica Posnaniensia
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 133-147

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Elena Sánchez-López

• Universitat d’Alacant

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/strop.2021.483.010

Biblioteka Nauki

1877521