Mèmes et snowclones : entre préfabrication et refabrication

In this paper, Antoine Gautier presents a particular type of multiword expressions similar to internet memes, which are serially produced, partial replications of an original source utterance. These “linguistic memes” may be viewed as partially or completely preconstructed idioms. Following Construction Grammar, he considers that these expressions combine a compositional meaning with an unpredictable, conventional meaning attached to, or derived from the source utterance.