The Rewriting of Idioms: Phraseological and Didactic Perspective

  • Riham El Khamissy Université Ain Shams Le Caire Egypte
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/THEL.55737
Keywords: phraseology, proverbs, pragmatic, press-didactics.

Abstract

This paper focuses on proverbs and sayings that are subject to re-writing in journalistic language. Studying this phenomenon in the French journalistic discourse is a linguistic issue which examines the stability/instability of a given proverb’s meaning. Such variations might be due to the shifting of the proverb’s elements and forms. When applied to a media corpus this phenomenon also becomes a cultural, pragmatic and cultural matter that demands careful scrutiny. In keeping with such an objective, the rewriting of proverbs is analyzed from a didactic perspective for non-native speakers. The analysis is concerned with comprehension, expression, and syntactic skills in the second/foreign language acquisition/learning.

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Riham El Khamissy, Université Ain Shams Le Caire Egypte

Mme Riham EL Khamissy est docteure en linguistique française et professeur-adjointe au département de français de la faculté des langues AL Alsun), Université de Ain Shams (Le Caire- Égypte). Ses travaux de recherche portent sur la pragmatique, les interactions (verbales, non-verbales, para-verbales),  les Noms propres modifiés, le lexique et la syntaxe. Elle est l’auteure de plusieurs articles, citons entre autres « L’identité visuelle d’un homme politique » in Thélème.2010, « Quand les Noms propres se modifient et font rébellion » in (RESLA) 2012, et « L’emprunt halal. Du discours lexicographique au discours journalistique » in Les Actes du 4ème Congrès Mondial de la linguistique française (CMLF 2014) à Berlin.

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Published
2017-10-18
How to Cite
El Khamissy R. (2017). The Rewriting of Idioms: Phraseological and Didactic Perspective. Thélème. Revista Complutense de Estudios Franceses, 32(2), 175-196. https://doi.org/10.5209/THEL.55737
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Vol. 32 No. 2 (2017)
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