Marcelo González Dec 7, 2019:

@Mónica - Thanks!!! Many, if not most, PhD theses are seldom read, especially outside of academia, so your appreciation means a lot!! Saludos desde Viet Nam ;-)

Mónica Algazi Dec 7, 2019:

Interesting and enlightening Thanks for sharing, Marcelo. I have just deleted my translation, as I believe Mariana's is more concise and euphonic.

Marcelo González Dec 7, 2019:

"clickbait" - a "nuanced conceptualization" This idiom reminds me of a special class of idiom I refer to in my PhD thesis as "nuanced conceptualizations" (see below):

"Highly-creative and compositional in nature, nuanced conceptualizations ... are a class of evocative idioms endowed with a certain associative load that is at once cumulative and disproportionate to their length; indeed, sometimes comprising a single compound word, their translational difficulty resides, at least partially, in (1) their concision and (2) their compositionality, i.e., the semantic-distributive properties of their constituent parts. [...] Additionally, nuanced conceptualizations may have a metaphorical effect, which further complicates their translation, as it adds a layer of meaning to an already semantically loaded concept. Thus, this special class of idiom appears to occupy a certain common ground with Nunberg et al.’s “idiomatically combining expressions” whose parts “have identifiable meanings” (e.g., “Pat got the job pulling strings that weren’t available to anyone else”) ..." "Metaphor and Agency" (2015: 60-61)
https://figshare.com/articles/Metaphor_and_agency_in_the_Eng...