UNIDADES FRASEOLÓGICAS FORMADAS POR NOMES DE LEGUMES, FRUTAS E VERDURAS NA LÍNGUA ESPANHOLA

Abstract

This research has as its theme the phraseological units formed by lexical items that include fruits, vegetables and greens, called, in this thesis, gastronomisms. These linguistic units constitute the object of study of Phraseology, a discipline that deals with the study of complex lexical combinations (such as idiomatic expressions, phrases, placements, among others) are relatively present and have a certain degree of fixation and idiomaticity. In this perspective, this work has as its objective more to investigate the gastronomisms collected, initially, in the Diccionario de la Lengua Española da Real Academia de la Lengua Española (RAE, 2017), in its on-line version, in order to analyze the senses express them, apart from trying to explain the underlying motivation to these units, as an idea to help their learning by Spanish learners such as Foreign Language. Therefore, from a theoretical point of view, we follow the precepts of Corpas Pastor (1996) and Fonseca (2017). The corpus of study of is composed a total of 233 gastronomisms, whose quantitative analysis showed that the most productive forms were made up of vegetables (51%), followed by fruit (40%) and greens (9%). Qualitatively, the data will reveal that the higher percentage of the gastronomies of the Spanish Language expresses concepts that refer to the comparison of foods with the physical and temperament characteristics of human beings, or that there is evidence that there is a relationship between the language and the speakers vision of world in a certain linguistic community.

KEYWORDS: Phraseology; Gastronomisms; Spanish.