Fixation, idiomaticity and compositionality: the phraseological unit deixar a poeira baixar in Portuguese
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https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v50i2.2959Keywords:
phraseological unit, fixation, idiomaticity, metaphor.Abstract
We conceive Phraseology as interdisciplinary and we establish a dialogue with Cognitive Linguistics (GURILLO, 1997; 2001; OLZA MORENO, 2011; MERINO GONZÁLEZ, 2015) to describe, synchronically, the phraseological unit “deixar a poeira baixar” in Portuguese. This unit denotes an order or some advice from the speaker to the interlocutor, so he can wait for the end of conflicting situations. We used Corpus do Português (DAVIS; FERREIRA, 2016) for analysis and we support the hypothesis that this unit arises from the conceptual metaphor: ADVERSITY IS DUE TO BAD WEATHER, related to the weather conditions. Moreover, we ratify the fixation and idiomaticity of this unit because it follows the formal ordination of Portuguese modal verbs; and it is endowed with motivated compositionality since we can recover clues in how its components parts contribute towards the whole meaning.Downloads
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