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GROUP PHRASEOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY BODY PARTS IN A CORPUS ON POLITICS

Abstract

This article analyses a sample corpus from Souza's dissertation (2018). It presents and describes the productive fixed lexical sequences related to the parts of the body. The corpus is organized by using the software WordSmith Tools, version 5.0 (SCOTT, 2008). Theoretically, it follows the French strand of Phraseology, starting from Mejri (1997, 1998, 2012). The distribution of the units in thematic groupings considers the referential orientation as one of the possibilities for the comparison of idiomatic expressions (ORTIZ ALVAREZ, 2000). The results demonstrate the occurrence of 93 phraseologisms that allude to 26 body parts, forming the basis for semantic mechanisms.