TOWARDS A DYNAMIC ACCOUNT OF PHRASEOLOGICAL MEANING: CREATIVE VARIATION IN HEADLINES AND CONVERSATIONAL HUMOUR

The present paper adopts a cognitive linguistic point of view from which it advocates a nonparticularist perspective on the semantics of fixed expressions. It is shown, accordingly, that the semantic structure of fixed expressions can be analysed in terms of the various cognitive mechanisms of const...

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Main Author: Kurt Feyaerts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Murcia 2006-06-01
Series:International Journal of English Studies (IJES)
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Online Access:http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/46871