A stereotype is a form of categorization which overlaps various disciplines, such as psychology, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. It lately became a topic in linguistics, being related to frozen sequences on behalf of their common denominator, fixity. Linguistic stereotype refers to a linguistic sequence which was frozen in a certain state and would not be altered by any means, being used as such by speakers. They are quite heterogeneous, yet they preserve some common features, being all very colorful, having a fixed syntactic structure and a global meaning. The intensive cliché is one such stereotype which deserves a special attention. While translated from one language to another, it rarely finds another intensive cliché as a correspondent, which is an irrefutable proof of its frozen origin.
Key words:
linguistic stereotype, frozen sequence, intensive cliché
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