Towards a dynamic account of phraseological meaning: creative variation in headlines and conversational humour

• Published in: International journal of English studies Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 57 - 84
• Main Author: Feyaerts, Kurt
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia (Murcia University Press) 01.01.2006
• Subjects: Cognitive Grammar; Cognitive Linguistics; Creativity; Humor; Lexical Semantics; Phraseologisms; Phraseology; Semantics Discourse Relationship; Wit and humor

The present paper adopts a cognitive linguistic point of view from which it advocates a non-particularist 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 cons...