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Nine months of winter, three of scorching hell: Portuguese meteorological adages throughout the year

dc.contributor.authorMartins, Cláudia
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-12T13:52:54Z
dc.date.available2013-09-12T13:52:54Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis paper intends to discuss the topic of fixed language from a linguistic standpoint, namely resorting to concepts of phraseology and paremiology. These will enable us to approach the problematic issue of word combinations, which are traditionally divided into free combinations and restricted combinations, and also consider their main characteristics, mainly lexicalisation, non-compositionality, syntactic irregularity (or frozenness) and semantic irregularity (or idiomaticity). The latter combinations comprise, for example, collocations, idiomatic expressions and proverbs, which account for the major output of human speakers – people speak in set phrases, as Mel’čuk (1998) upholds. However, restricted word combinations are culturally-bound and, as such, should be understood within the history and culture that produced them. One such case concerns the use of meteorological adages in Portugal, an extremely productive collection of popular sayings which aim at summarising weather observation made by consecutive generations and concluding about their influence and effect on farming throughout the year.por
dc.identifier.citationMartins, Cláudia Susana Nunes (2013). Nine months of winter, three of scorching hell: Portuguese meteorological adages throughout the year. In Silva, Elisabete; Pais, Clarisse; Pais, L. S. Teaching Crossroads: 8th Erasmus Week. Bragança: Instituto Politécnico de Bragança. p. 75-91. ISBN 978-972-745-151-7por
dc.identifier.isbn978-972-745-151-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/8742
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewednopor
dc.publisherInstituto Politécnico de Bragançapor
dc.subjectCompositionalitypor
dc.subjectIdiomaticitypor
dc.subjectFrozennesspor
dc.subjectMeteorological adagespor
dc.titleNine months of winter, three of scorching hell: Portuguese meteorological adages throughout the yearpor
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceBragançapor
oaire.citation.endPage91por
oaire.citation.startPage75por
oaire.citation.titleTeaching Crossroadspor
person.familyNameMartins
person.givenNameCláudia
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-3388-2340
person.identifier.scopus-author-id57214068155
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