Analysis of comparative stereotypical expressions reveals common syntactic patterns in Romanian and French, suggesting shared cultural perceptions of human flaws.
Comparative stereotypical expressions represent a particular category among the phraseological units of a language. In French linguistics, they have acquired many names: intensive clichÈ (Schapira 1999: 27), stereotyped intensive sequences (Szende 1999: 68) or hyperbolic comparisons (Tamba-Mecz 1979: 16). In our analysis, we plan to present two types of syntactic structures, very common in spoken language, especially in the colloquial register, in French as well as in Romanian, of the adjective + CE (comparing element) + compared element and verb + CE (comparing element) + compared element type, which correspond at the onomasiological level to the expression of human defects and states of mind.
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Nicoleta PETUHOV (2025) studied this question.
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