{"pk":48943,"title":"Three Types of Near-Synonymy and Rare Collocations: Selected Results from a Cognitive, Corpus-Based Study of Nominal Lexical Substitution in Korean, Japanese, and English Idioms","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores one facet of idiomatic creativity: lexical substitution, focusing on substitution for nouns in Korean, Japanese, and English idioms. Analyzing 15 idioms per language, we identify patterns in how speakers creatively replace nouns in the canonical idioms, revealing cognitive and linguistic strategies for idiom manipulation. These strategies serve communicative goals such as frame role assignment, reducing the burden of referentiality, and contextual relevance. We highlight two key findings: (1) three distinct patterns of synonymy based on the replaced noun’s literal, figurative, or extended meaning, and (2) the emergence of rare collocations which are nevertheless immediately interpretable - a phenomenon which we argue stems from the complex referential demands of idiomatic expressions.</p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vk2f9k7","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Carey","middle_name":"","last_name":"Benom","name_suffix":"","institution":"Seinan Gakuin University","department":""},{"first_name":"Young-Min","middle_name":"","last_name":"Oh","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2025-07-10T08:13:11.325000+06:00","date_accepted":"2025-07-11T12:49:10.482000+06:00","date_published":"2025-07-07T13:00:00+06:00","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/japanesekoreanlinguistics/article/48943/galley/36873/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/japanesekoreanlinguistics/article/48943/galley/36873/download/"}]}