El archiexemplum como matriz abstractiva proverbial

Cristian Díaz Rodríguez

doi:10.7764/onomazein.59.10

The archiexemplum as an abstractive proverbial matrix

Authors

Cristian Díaz Rodríguez Equipo de Investigación CHER (Culture et Histoire dans l’Espace Roman), Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras Aplicadas, Facultad de Lenguas y Culturas Extranjeras, Universidad de Estrasburgo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7519-7376

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.59.10

Keywords:

proverb, archiexemplum, proverbial meaning, phraseology

Abstract

This article defines the concept of archiexemplum as an extrapolation of two phraseological instruments: archimetaphor (Iñesta & Pamies, 2002) and archimetonymy (Díaz Rodríguez, 2017) to some suprasyntagmatic phraseological units. To be precise, archiexemplum would be the abstraction of a matrix used to create proverbial statements. Hence, every single proverb in a language would be a particular materialization of one of these exempla.