Conceptual Integration Theory in Idiom Modifications

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Conceptual Integration Theory in Idiom Modifications is written by Nihada Delibegović Džanić and published by Universitat de València. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 8491345566 (ISBN 10) and 9788491345565 (ISBN 13).

The long-standing view that idioms are formally and thus also semantically fixed has been challenged and many studies have shown that idioms are indeed flexible both structurally and semantically to varying degrees. We often come across examples of creatively used idioms, with their original structure disrupted and their semantics affected in the process. This book investigates the phenomenon of innovation and creativity in phraseology and examines the limits to innovation, i.e. it questions whether modified idioms are choreographed by a set of principles or constraints and whether these principles are coherent. Conceptual Integration Theory is used to analyze modified phraseological units in order to provide insights into mechanisms which regulate their creation and cognitive organization.