WhIAW constructional idioms in Spanish and German.  A corpus-based study

Pedro Ivorra Ordines; Ana Mansilla-Pérez

doi:10.54103/milanoup.233

WhIAW constructional idioms in Spanish and German. A corpus-based study

Autori

Pedro Ivorra Ordines

Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2353-1002 (non autenticato)

Ana Mansilla-Pérez

Universidad de Murcia

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4264-1159 (non autenticato)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/milanoup.233.c762

Sinossi

This study contributes to the field of contrastive linguistics in the context of Construction Grammar. Adopting a corpus-based methodology (esTenTen18 for Spanish and deTenTen20 for German, in Sketch Engine), the objective of the study of the WhIAW constructional idioms (e.g., ¿Qué cojones haces aquí?, lit. ‘What bollocks do here’, meaning ‘What the heck are you doing here’, or Was zum Teufel machst du hier?, lit. ‘What to hell do you here?’, meaning ‘What the hell are you doing here’) in Spanish and German is twofold. First, to explore the “pragmatic point” of the constructions, taking into account their illocutive function(s) and their inherent incompatibility between form and interpretation (cf. Kay and Fillmore, 1999). Second, to describe the nature of the slot fillers by means of the use of vulgarisms and euphemisms, borrowings from other languages, and hapax and creative language use.

Biografie autore

Pedro Ivorra Ordines, Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza

is a Lecturer at Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza), has held a Margarita Salas (Spain) Fellowship hosted by Carmen Mellado Blanco and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Germany) hosted by Thomas Hoffmann. He has published in prestigious international journals including Yearbook of Phraseology, Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistics Vanguard or International Journal of Bilingualism, and for renowned publishing houses such as CUP, Elsevier, De Gruyter or Peter Lang. He is also the author of the monograph Comparative Constructional Idioms in Spanish, English and French. A Contrastive Usage-based Approach (to appear this year in the De Gruyter Formulaic Language series). He has been a member of the FRASESPAL research group since 2017, and now he is a member of the research project Creativity through the lens of Construction Grammar: a corpus and AI-based repository of constructional idioms in German, Spanish and English, led by Carmen Mellado Blanco.

Ana Mansilla-Pérez, Universidad de Murcia

is an Associate Professor of German Philology at the University of Murcia (Spain). She has been a member of the research group FRASESPAL since 2007 and is currently involved in the CREA-CONSTRIDIOMS research project (Creativity through the lens of Construction Grammar: a corpus and AI-based repository of constructional idioms in German, Spanish and English), led by Carmen Mellado, as well as the European COST Action CA22115 (PhraConRep). She is the co-author of the bilingual idiomatic dictionary Idiomatik Deutsch–Spanisch (2013), coordinated by Carmen Mellado Blanco. Her research focuses on German–Spanish contrastive phraseology, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, construction grammar and the teaching of German as a foreign language.