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On politicians in big women’s sunglasses driving buses with their feet in mouths: Late-night political humour and conceptual integration theory

Nihada Delibegović Džanić
E-mail: nihada.delibegovic@untz.ba
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8241-6338
University of Tuzla

Sanja Berberović
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8241-6338
University of Tuzla
Abstract: The paper focuses on political jokes from late-night shows, which contain modified idiomatic expressions. The aim of the present paper is to show that conceptual integration theory, proposed by Faucon...
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Conceptual Integration Theory – the key for unlocking the internal cognitive choreography of idiom modification

Nihada Delibegović Džanić
Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Tuzli
Abstract: The paper represents an attempt to reveal the internal choreography of idiom modification. It is argued that modified idiomatic expressions can be explained using the postulates of the Conceptual Inte...