This paper looks at the phrasal verbs get through, get along, and get by in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). It attempts to explain how their non-literal meanings are created through combinations of metaphor and metonymy - and shows that different senses of the same phrasal verbs, especially the rigid forms, can have different degrees of metaphoricity. This study shows that phrasal verbs with the same verbal component can have different meanings, depending on the meaning of the particle and on the semantics of the collocates the phrasal verb is used with. The discussion suggests that a combination of corpus search and analysis based on the semantics of prepositions should be used to define the processes of generating the metaphoricity of phrasal verbs.
목차
I. Introduction II. Previous Studies 2.1 Metaphoricity and Phrasal Verbs 2.2 The Review of Choi (2015, 2016, 2017) III. Present Research IV. Results 4.1 Get Through 4.2 Get Along 4.3 Get By V. Discussion VI. Conclusion References Abstract
키워드
phrasal verbsmetaphormetonymyCOCAidioms
저자
Ekaterina Chon [ Mokpo National University ]
first author
Yoon-kyoung Joh [ 조윤경 | Mokpo National University ]
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