MOTIVATION OF PHRASEOLOGISM ON EXAMPLE OF THE IDIOM EIN HEISSES PFLASTER Cover Image

Zur Motiviertheit der Phraseologismen am Beispiel des Idioms ein heißes Pflaster
MOTIVATION OF PHRASEOLOGISM ON EXAMPLE OF THE IDIOM EIN HEISSES PFLASTER

Author(s): Anna Sulikowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: phraseology; motivation; metonymy; metaphor

Summary/Abstract: The motivation is in the phraseology to a great extent an individual and controversial phenomenon, especially when the analyzed idiom is undergoing a semantic extension of its meaning. While analyzing examples of authentic use of the idiom ein heißes Pflaster the author distinguishes and describes conceptual metaphors, metonymies and metaphtonomies to reveal the complexity of motivating mechanisms of its meaning.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 171-189
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: German