Le espressioni idiomatiche gestuo-cinesiche tra corpo e cultura. Un’analisi contrastiva italiano-inglese e italiano-francese

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  • Federica Casadei Università della Tuscia Author
  • Priscilla Benke University of Caen Normandy image/svg+xml Author

Keywords:

gestural-kinesic idioms, Italian, English, French

Abstract

This paper presents the results of two contrastive Italian-English and Italian-French studies on gestural-kinesic idioms, i.e. idioms referring to gestures and other kinesic behaviours such as movements of body parts, expressions, postures. The aim of the research was first of all to investigate how many Italian gestural- kinesic idioms have an equivalent in English and French. It turns out that this is true for 50% of the idioms in the case of French and for 61% of them in the case of English. The highest number of equivalences is found in the idioms that refer to kinesic behaviours that are supposed to be universal, whereas cultural features mostly hinder the existence of equivalents in the different languages. The perspective of crosslinguistic comparison allows for the full emergence, and better understanding, of the interplay of biological, cognitive and cultural factors of which gestural-kinesic idioms are a paradigmatic case.

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Author Biographies

  • Federica Casadei, Università della Tuscia

    Federica Casadei è professore associato all’Università della Tuscia, dove insegna Didattica delle lingue moderne e Linguistica applicata. La sua principale area di ricerca è la semantica lessicale; in particolare si occupa di espressioni idiomatiche, metafore, ambiguità lessicale, lessici settoriali e scientifici. Tra le sue pubblicazioni, oltre a numerosi saggi, i volumi Metafore ed espressioni idiomatiche (Bulzoni, 1996) e Lessico e semantica (Carocci, 2003).

  • Priscilla Benke, University of Caen Normandy

    Priscilla Benke ha conseguito la laurea magistrale in Lingue e culture per la comunicazione internazionale all’Università della Tuscia. Attualmente è dottoranda in Langues et littératures étrangères presso l’Université de Caen (sotto la supervisione del prof. Juan Carlos D’amico) e membro del laboratorio di ricerca ERLIS (Équipe de recherche sur les littératures, les imaginaires et les sociétés, ED 558 · NH · Normandie Humanités).

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2023-12-15

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No. 7 (2023): Aspetti linguistici e intraculturali della fraseologia e la paremiologia

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Le espressioni idiomatiche gestuo-cinesiche tra corpo e cultura. Un’analisi contrastiva italiano-inglese e italiano-francese. (2023). PHRASIS | Rivista Di Studi Fraseologici E Paremiologici, 7(7). https://www.phrasis.it/rivista/index.php/rp/article/view/118

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