Conceptual Integration Theory In Idiom Modifications

Download or read book Conceptual Integration Theory in Idiom Modifications written by Nihada Delibegović Džanić and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-standing view that idioms are formally and thus also semantically fixed has been challenged and many studies have shown that idioms are indeed flexible both structurally and semantically to varying degrees. We often come across examples of creatively used idioms, with their original structure disrupted and their semantics affected in the process. This book investigates the phenomenon of innovation and creativity in phraseology and examines the limits to innovation, i.e. it questions whether modified idioms are choreographed by a set of principles or constraints and whether these principles are coherent. Conceptual Integration Theory is used to analyze modified phraseological units in order to provide insights into mechanisms which regulate their creation and cognitive organization.