Snowclones: a construction "to live in"
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https://doi.org/10.7203/QF.29.28710Keywords:
snowclone, construction grammar, frame semantics, pragmatics, constructionalization
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The term snowclone emerged in a rather informal way to designate a fixed phrase used in funny variants. This phenomenon caught the attention of the researchers, who refined its definition framing it within construction grammar (Traugott & Trousdale, 2013) and, subsequently, adding the notion of extravagance and adopting a corpus-based approach (Hartmann & Ungerer, 2023). In this paper we will analyse the evolution process of the Spanish phrase [UN casa/piso (LISTO) para entrar a vivir] (‘a house/flat ready to move in’) to become the snowclone construction [UN X para entrar a vivir] (‘a X ready to move in’ – displaying different meanings). We will focus on the cognitive and semantic-pragmatic factors influencing the process, as well as the semantic constraints imposed on the X slot-fillers by it.
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