Avoir son pain cuit : Huit siècles d'ambiguïté sémantique
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Auteurs : Elizabeth Dawes [Canada]Source :
- Neophilologus [ 0028-2677 ] ; 1996.
Abstract
Abstract: Figurative idioms are usually thought of as ambiguous because of their literal counterpart, however improbable the latter may be. Nevertheless, some expressions have several figurative meanings, two of which may be antonymic. While the ambiguity is often short-lived, the two antonymic meanings of the Old Frenchavoir son pain cuit coexisted for eight centuries. This expression signifying both «to have made a fortune» and «to be financially ruined, to be dying» is also used in another sense, namely «to be satisfied sexually». Although it appears in at least nine languages, both Romance and Germanic, it is only in French that the antonymic acceptations coexist. Four hypotheses are brought forward to explain the semantic ambiguity of the idiom, suggesting: 1) that one meaning replaced the other diachronically; 2) that the two are linked to independently motivated homonyms; 3) that they belong to a single polysemous idiom; or 4) that one meaning derived from the other through irony, the ironic meaning being dependent on the context at first but later becoming conventional. We argue in favour of the fourth hypothesis, concluding that the ironic «to be financially ruined, to be dying» derived from the meaning «to have made a fortune».
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DOI: 10.1007/BF00410673
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