Les parties du corps humain dans les phrasèmes à valeur intensive en français et en polonais – vers une étude contrastive

Abstract

The first objective of this study is a contrastive analysis that will allow us to highlight the similarities (cf. jouer comme un pied/grać jak noga) and also the divergences (cf.faire des pieds et des mains pourqqch/bronić czegoś rękami i nogami) between phraseosomatisms [expressions with body-parts nouns] of intensifying value in French and Polish languages; as the examined phraseosomatisms are not always transparent, the usefulness of such studies for translating and for French language teaching is obvious. The second objective, which is closely related to the first, is to propose a detailed description of some selected expressions, to verify which parameters of such description should be integrated into the micro-structure of our future bilingual Polish-French dictionary: Electronic Dictionary of Intensifying Expres-sions (in Polish: Słownik Elektroniczny Wyrażeń Intensyfikujących, or SEWI).

Keywords

• body-parts nouns
• contrastive analysis
• equivalence
• intensity
• intensifier
• lexical function
• phraseological units