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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| Language: | English |
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Universidad de Murcia
2006-06-01
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| Series: | International Journal of English Studies (IJES) |
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| Online Access: | http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/46871 |