The ways of phraseology are mysterious: Humour and snowclones in Spanish and German Bibleisms from a Construction Grammar perspective
Editorial: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
ISBN: 978-953-314-216-6
Ano de publicación: 2024
Páxinas: 495-512
Tipo: Capítulo de libro
Obxectivos de Desenvolvemento Sustentable
Resumo
The subject of this essay1 is Bibleisms in German and Spanish which, in addition to their original religious and often moralizing meaning, have, over time, developed additional ironic and/ or humorous semantics. Some of them may undergo, alongside the change of register, a process of constructionalization derived from their lexical variability in discourse. In this way, a high number of anti-proverbs (Mieder 1982) can lead to the creation of patterns and the emergence of semi-schematic constructions or snowclones. Using the Sketch Engine corpora esTenTen18 (https://www.sketchengine.eu/), and deTenTen20 (https://www.sketchengine.eu/) the aim of this corpus-based study is to explore the lexical variability of the biblical quotation No solo de pan vive el hombre/ Der Mensch lebt nicht vom Brot allein(Man shall not live by bread alone) (Matthew 4:4) in Spanish and German in order to uncover a possible phenomenon of constructionalization. Be-sides, it will also be explained whether the two languages display produc-tivity to the same extent.