Phraseologie, Polysemie und Pragmatik im öffentlichen Sprachgebrauch Italiens - zur Kreativität und Effizienz im Umgang mit focuzioni idiomatiche

Abstract

Idiomatic expressions have a considerable semantic and pragmatic potential that has remained hidden in all previous lexicographic descriptions, at least as far as verbal idioms of Italian are concerned.The article aims to show that a corpus-based and holistic approach, which systematically examines all levels of language, can help to uncover not only the semantic and pragmatic but also syntactic features (e. g. valency) of each verbal idiom, as it is the case in the research project Gebrauchsbasierte Phraseologie des Italienischen (GEPHRI), in English Usage-based Phraseology of Italian. Ch. 1 gives a brief overview of the state of research on the use of phrasemes in public and political speech. Ch. 2 explains general features of the phraseological category of verbal idioms. Ch. 3 introduces the project (3.1) and describes the underlying speech corpora (3.2). Ch. 4 illustrates some semantic and pragmatic peculiarities of verbal idioms in public language use, as they could be analysed in the GEPHRI project. Ch. 5 draws a brief conclusion.