KOMICZNE PRZEKSZTAŁCENIA UTARTYCH ZWIĄZKÓW WYRAZOWYCH
Comic transformations of set phrases

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of the linguistic material is aimed at identifying the types of consciously used innovations occurring in comic transformations of set phrases and units of language. The aim of the carried out research is related to noticeable changes in using such units, i.a. the decreasing resource of paroemias used nowadays and their simultaneous – usually comic – modifi cations The adopted research method relies on a compilation of the analysed examples (coming from the Heca hecą column printed in the weekly „Przekrój” ) with their canonical forms derived from selected studies and their division into groups representing modifi cation types (the groups were distinguished based on a classifi cation of phraseologism modifi cations presented in works by Stanisław Bąba and Grażyna Majkowska). Comic transformations of set phrases are lexical in nature; these are normally developing and replacing innovations, less frequently – contaminating and shortening ones. A formal change does not always cause a semantic modifi cation; innovative meanings can, in turn, refer to the original ones (have the relation of antonymy with them, weaken their fi gurativeness, cause intended ambiguity) or not (transform them towards pure nonsense, create new meanings).

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