Figement de séquences défigées : un commerce devenu inéquitable (version révisée)

CUSIMANO, Christophe Gérard L. Figement de séquences défigées : un commerce devenu inéquitable (version révisée) (Multi-words expressions derived from older ones : an unfair trade). Pratiques - Littérature, linguistique et difactique. Metz: Association Cresef - Pratiques, 2013, Neuveden, 159/160, p. 69-78. ISSN 0338-2389.

Basic information

• Original name: Figement de séquences défigées : un commerce devenu inéquitable (version révisée)
• Name (in English): Multi-words expressions derived from older ones : an unfair trade
• Authors: CUSIMANO, Christophe Gérard L. (250 France, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Pratiques - Littérature, linguistique et difactique, Metz, Association Cresef - Pratiques, 2013, 0338-2389.

Other information

• Original language: French
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60200 6.2 Languages and Literature
• Country of publisher: France
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/13:00070654
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords (in Czech): séquence; figée; défigement; ajout; segmental; affixation
• Keywords in English: fixed multi words expressions; fixed expressions and idioms derivation; set phrases; hermeneutics; puns; variation
• Tags: kontrola_RIV, rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Dans cette étude, nous projetons d'observer le devenir des défigements formés par ajout d'affixe, de formuler des hypotheses sur les conditions qui conduisent a un nouveau figement, celui de l'expression défigée qui va donc coexister avec le premier figement. C'est le cas de commerce inéquitable, défigement formé par ajout du préfixe in- a la séquence figée commerce équitable qui a sans doute acquis a son tour le statut de lexie.

Abstract (in English)

It is commonly admitted that fixed multi words expressions (MWEs), term preferred in NLP, or fixed expressions and idioms (FEIs), constitute more or less the half-part of the lexicon of any language, and the way one handles them is thus essential to speak like native speakers. But since linguistics is based on the decomposition of minimal language units, we find noteworthy that they rarely take part of dictionaries. In this study, although we agree that stability and fixedness differ among FEIs and that each of them shows a characteristic behaviour on the morphological, syntactical, and semantic levels, we will only focus on the hermeneutical conditions of their variation, and more particularly on puns. In a few cases, puns are obtained by derivation of one or more segments of the FEI and the lexicalisation of modified FEIs is thus particularly interesting: let us take the case of commerce equitable (788 000 occurrences following Google.fr and 20 200 for the modified FEI, commerce inéquitable). In this example, the modified FEI seems to meet the needs of communication: commerce inequitable can be used in every discourse situation dedicated to neglect the improvement of workers conditions around the world. This article deals with the conditions that explain the lexicalisation of new FEIs derived on the basis of older ones.