Idiom Variation in Colour Idioms in Economic Discourse: A Corpus-based Analysis
Idiom Variation in Colour Idioms in Economic Discourse: A Corpus-based Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show that colour idioms in economic discourse manifest a fairdegree of variability and perform various functions in discourse. Apparently fixedexpressions, idioms in general and, colour idioms in particular, do behave creatively asindicated by corpora findings. Colours have considerable power to generate idioms in theeconomic field, giving birth to various idiomatic clusters. Colour idioms in economicdiscourse vary both lexically and syntactically. Their role is not only to conveyinformation but, depending of the type of variation, they perform various functions in theeconomic discourse. As discourse reflects and is reflected by the surrounding reality, theeconomic discourse proves able to bring new colour idioms into use.

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