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These two tendencies are treated in different ways in lexicology and stylistics. In
lexicology the parts of a stable lexical unit may be separated in order to make a scientific
investigation of the character of the combination and to analyse the components. In
stylistics we analyse the component parts in order to get at
some communicative effect
employed to achieve it that lie within the domain of stylistics.
The integrating tendency also is studied in the realm of lexicology, especially when
linguistic scholars seek to fix what seems to be a stable word combination and ascertain
the degree of its stability, its variants and so on. The integrating tendency is also within the
domain of stylistics, particularly when the word combination has not yet formed itself as a
lexical unit but is in the process of being so formed.
Here we are faced with the problem of what is called the cliché.
The Cliché.A cliché is generally defined as an expression that has become
hackneyed and trite. It has lost its precise meaning by constant reiteration; in other words
it has become stereotyped. As “Random House Dictionary” has it. “a cliché … has lost
originality, ingenuity, and impact by long over-use…”
This definition lacks one point that should be emphasized; that is, a cliché strives
after originality, whereas it has lost the aesthetic generating power it once had. There is
always a contradiction between what is aimed at and what is actually attained. Examples
of real clichés are:
rosy dreams of youth, the patter of little feet, deceptively simple.
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