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- Title
ABBOCCARE ALL'AMO (MA NON SOLO): Su alcuni aspetti della cultura materiale nei modi di dire di origine marinaresca.
- Authors
MONTINARO, CHIARA
- Abstract
The paper focuses on the contribution of the lexicon of material culture of seafaring origin in the irradiation of the idiomatic language in Italian. After a basic overview of some tools of the sea (hook, anchor, net, oars) from which very common figurative expressions stem, the paper deals with abboccare all'amo, from which interesting historical-etymological features with many semantic implications appear. The investigation shows the lexical and semantic evolution that characterises the passage from material culture word of the seafaring field (concrete sense) to figurative language, with a special focus also on the semantics of verbs frequently used not only in the idiom under investigation (abboccare all'amo), but also in other idiomatic expressions of Italian. By comparing the earliest occurrences of phraseological uses related to amo in lexicographic repertories, such as TLIO and GRADIT, but also in sectorial dictionaries on idioms, some interesting diatopic and diachronic information on lexical and synonymic variants occurs.
- Subjects
FIGURES of speech; IDIOMS; ITALIAN language; MATERIAL culture; LEXICON
- Publication
Lingue e Linguaggi, 2024, Vol 61, p315
- ISSN
2239-0367
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1285/i22390359v61p315