Proverbe prototypique

Philippe Gréa (1)

1 MoDyCo - Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus

Proverbs transpose from a domain to another. Generic phrases do not. By looking for minimal contrasts between proverbs and generic phrases, we show that the former have two distinctive gestaltist/semantic features: a strong relational architecture and an articulation without rests. These two features are based on a broader principle related to semantic coherence. From this perspective, transposability from one domain to another is typical of schematic structure with a high degree of internal coherence. Coherence being a matter of degree, we argue for a continuum from prototypical proverbs (for which both coherence-based features are realized) to simple generic phrases (for which neither feature is realised).

Mots clés: semantics; proverb; saying; linguistic paremiology; gestalttheorie; generic phrase

Mots clés: sémantique; proverbe; parémiologie linguistique; théorie de la Gestalt; phrase générique; complétion

Domaines: Linguistique

Philippe Gréa. Proverbe prototypique. Florica Hrubaru; Estelle Moline; Anca-Marina Velicu. Nouveaux regards sur le sens et la référence. Hommages à Georges Kleiber, Editura ECHINOX, pp.305-330, 2017. ⟨halshs-01625463⟩