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Idiom Variation in Colour Idioms in Economic Discourse: A Corpus-based Analysis

Marina-Cristiana Rotaru

Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania

Pages 296–312

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show that colour idioms in economic discourse manifest a fair degree of variability and perform various functions in discourse. Apparently fixed expressions, idioms in general and, colour idioms in particular, do behave creatively as indicated by corpora findings. Colours have considerable power to generate idioms in the economic field, giving birth to various idiomatic clusters. Colour idioms in economic discourse vary both lexically and syntactically. Their role is not only to convey information but, depending of the type of variation, they perform various functions in the economic discourse. As discourse reflects and is reflected by the surrounding reality, the economic discourse proves able to bring new colour idioms into use.

Keywords —

economic colour idioms · idiom variation · internal variation of idioms

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Rotaru, M.-C. (2019). Idiom Variation in Colour Idioms in Economic Discourse: A Corpus-based Analysis. Dialogos, 36, 296–312.

Rotaru, Marina-Cristiana. “Idiom Variation in Colour Idioms in Economic Discourse: A Corpus-based Analysis.” Dialogos, vol. 36, 2019, pp. 296–312.

Rotaru, Marina-Cristiana. 2019. “Idiom Variation in Colour Idioms in Economic Discourse: A Corpus-based Analysis.” Dialogos 36: 296–312.

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