Speedy Metonymy, Tricky Metaphor, Irrelevant Compositionality: How Nonliteralness Affects Idioms in Reading and Rating

Michl, Diana

doi:10.1007/s10936-019-09658-7

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“…Decomposability is also referred to as "compositionality" (Michl, 2019b;Titone & Connine, 1994) and "analysability" (Gibbs Jr & Nayak, 1989); it refers to the possibility of decomposing the figurative meaning of an idiom and associating the parts with its literal constituents (Sailer, 2021). Decomposability is, therefore, a variable that investigates the interface between the syntactic and semantic level of an idiom (Maher, 2013).…”

Section: Content-based Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has also been pointed out as a key factor in explaining the degree of linguistic flexibility of idioms (Gibbs Jr & Nayak, 1989). However, recent developments in linguistics and psycholinguistics invite to resize the overall explanatory power of decomposability (Maher, 2013;Michl, 2019b) and to consider it in a multi-layered scenario where other variables also play a key role in the analysis of idiomatic variation.…”

Section: Content-based Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Only few studies have considered both decomposability and transparency: see Carrol, Littlemore, and Dowens (2018) and Michl (2019aMichl ( , 2019b. However, these studies differ from each other in their definitions and operationalisations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Both sub-variables are operationalised on a 1 to 5 Likert scale and are presented post-meaning. As for decomposability, it is examined in Michl (2019b), and is Pagliai Journal of Open Humanities Data DOI: 10.5334/johd.123 defined as "the degree to which the meaning of an idiom can be composed from the meaning of its constituents" (p. 1288). It is presented post-meaning, but this time it is operationalised on a 1 to 7 Likert scale.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Bridging the Gap: Creation of a Lexicon of 150 Pairs of English and Italian Idioms Including Normed Variables for the Exploration of Idiomatic Ambiguity

Pagliai

2023

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This paper describes the creation of a normed lexicon of 150 pairs of English and Italian idioms annotated by translatability level (Beck, 2020). The dataset was created through the implementation of a cross-linguistic norming study conducted online via a novel combination of tools and design, which was validated by data reliability measurement. The lexicon contains information with respect to two groups of idiom variables (Hubers, Cucchiarini, Strik, & Dijkstra, 2019): Experience-Based Variables ("EBVs": familiarity, meaningfulness and objective knowledge) and Content-Based Variables ("CBVs": literal plausibility, decomposability and transparency). These variables are particularly relevant for the analysis of ambiguous contexts where there is an interaction between the literal and figurative meaning of an idiom (Wagner, 2021). In particular, the sum of the mean ratings obtained for the three CBVs provides the Potential Idiomatic Ambiguity ("PIA") index of each idiom: the higher the PIA, the more likely the idiom should be to occur in ambiguous contexts. This index can therefore be exploited in the setup of future psycholinguistic experiments to verify the relationship between the internal distribution of idiom features and ambiguous contexts. Moreover, the lexicon is a valuable research tool per se, since it contributes to bridging the gap in cross-linguistic research in idiom norming studies (Nordmann, Cleland, & Bull, 2014;Pastor, 2021), enabling systematic comparative analyses and enhancing understanding of the relationships among the examined variables.

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