RT Book,_Section
T1 The ways of biblical quotations are mysterious: change of register and snowclones in Spanish and German from a constructivist point of view
A1 Mellado Blanco, Carmen
A2 Babič, Saša
A2 Williams, Fionnuala
A2 Litovkina, Anna T.
K1 Biblical Phraseology
K1 Construction grammar
K1 Spanish-German Snowclones
AB The subject of this essay is Bibleisms in German and Spanish which, in addition to their original religious and often moralizing meaning, have, over time, developed additional ironic and/ or humorous semantics. Some of them may undergo, alongside the change of register, a process of constructionalization derived from their lexical variability in discourse. In this way, a high number of anti-proverbs (Mieder 1982) can lead to the creation of patterns and the emergence of semi-schematic constructions or snowclones. Using the Sketch Engine corpora esTenTen18 (https://www.sketchengine.eu/), and deTenTen20 (https://www.sketchengine.eu/) the aim of this corpus-based study is to explore the lexical variability of the biblical quotation No solo de pan vive el hombre/ Der Mensch lebt nicht vom Brot allein (Man shall not live by bread alone) (Matthew 4:4) in Spanish and Germanin order to uncover a possible phenomenon of constructionalization. Besides, it will also be explained whether the two languages display productivity to the same extent.
PB University of Osijek
SN 978-953-314-216-6
YR 2024
FD 2024-02-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33277
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/33277
LA eng
NO Mellado Blanco, C. (2024). The ways of biblical quotations are mysterious: change of register and snowclones in Spanish and German from a constructivist point of view. En: Babič, S.; T. Litovkina, A.; Williams, F. (eds.). Standing on the shoulders of giants: a Festschrift in honour of Wolfgang Mieder on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Proverbium Online Supplement 3. Osijek: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Osijek. pp. 495-512. https://naklada.ffos.hr/knjige/index.php/ff/catalog/view/18/23/47
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026