Abstract
Idiomatic expressions produce “popular categories”, key and quite stable concepts that shape everyday understanding. The expressions bring scenes or images that need to be transformed into the popular category or categories at play. Two procedures are described by which this is achieved. Both imply schematic operations of Kantian and cognitive linguistics origin.References
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