Variability of Proper­-Noun Idioms in Different Varieties of English

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Authors

DOBIÁŠOVÁ Sarah

Year of publication 2020
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Ostrava Journal of English Philology
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web https://dokumenty.osu.cz/ff/journals/ostravajournal/12-1/OJEP_20_1_Dobiasova.pdf
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.15452/OJoEP.2020.12.0005
Keywords idioms; variability; cognitive linguistics; cultural linguistics; corpus
Description The paper sets out to investigate the grammatical and semantic variability of selected idioms across different varieties of English, employing the cognitive linguistic and cultural linguistic perspectives. The analysis revealed that lexemes in idioms are prone to considerable variability in different English varieties. It was also revealed that the topic of the text, as well as the intention of its producer, played an important role in the process of modification. Examples of this kind of modification might be variants of the idiom Bob’s your uncle, such as Jah’s your uncle or Mao’s your uncle, as found in the NOW corpus.
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