|
2. Types of Motivation
The relevant traces of the mental image of a motivated idiom must be regarded as part of its content plane in a broad sense. As a rule, the image component is involved in the cognitive processing of the particular idiom. This means that relevant elements of the inner form have to be included in the structure of the semantic explication of idioms. Since the majority of idioms are semantically motivated, we need to distinguish between two principal types of semantic motivation: the metaphoric motivation type and the symbol-based motivation type. Both types can additionally be affected by a third, not purely semantic type of motivation, namely intertextuality. We will concentrate on these three major types of motivation.iii
Dostları ilə paylaş: |
