Phraseology and culture in English / edited by Paul Skandera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Skandera, Paul.

Series:

Topics in English linguistics 1434-3452 ; 54.

Topics in English linguistics, 1434-3452 ; 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Social aspects--English-speaking countries.

English language.

Language and culture--English-speaking countries.

Language and culture.

Civilization.

Group identity.

English language--Social aspects.

English-speaking countries.

English language--Variation.

Linguistic geography.

Group identity--English-speaking countries.

English-speaking countries--Civilization.

Physical Description:

ix, 511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, [2007]

Summary:

This volume explores the cultural dimension of a wide range of multiword units in English. Its contributions focus on particular lexemes (e.g. enjoy and its collocates), types of multiword units (e.g. proverbs and similes), use-related varieties (such as the language of tourism or answering-machine messages), and user-related varieties (such as Aboriginal English or African English). They are preceded by a prologue, tracing the development of the study of formulaic language, and followed by an epilogue, which draws together the various threads laid throughout the volume. This is the first book-length publication devoted entirely to the study of the relation between English phraseology and culture.

Contents:

Developments in the study of formulaic language since 1970: A personal view / Andrew Pawley 3

Focus on particular lexemes

Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for the study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings / Anna Wierzbicka 49

Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence from collocations and elsewhere / Bert Peeters 79

Enjoy!: The (phraseological) culture of having fun / Monika Bednarek, Wolfram Bublitz 109

Hot, heib, and gorjachij: A case study of collocations in English, German, and Russian / Doris Schonefeld 137

Focus on types of idioms

Collections of proverbs and proverb dictionaries: Some historical observations on what's in them and what's not (with a note on current "gendered" proverbs) / Charles Clay Doyle 181

Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview of New England / Wolfgang Mieder 205

Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian English / Pam Peters 235

Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness in spoken discourse / Svenja Adolphs 257

Focus on use-related varieties: Registers

Lexical developments in greenspeaking / Melina Magdalena, Peter Muhlhausler 275

The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field and its cultural construction / Andrea Gerbig, Angela Shek 303

Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type perspective: The conventionalization of routine phrases in answering-machine messages / Karin Aijmer 323

Focus on user-related varieties: Dialects and ethnolects

Greetings as an act of identity in Tristan da Cunha English: From individual to social significance? / Daniel Schreier 353

Multiword units in Aboriginal English: Australian cutural expression in an adopted language / Ian G. Malcolm, Farzad Sharifian 375

Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English / Hans-Georg Wolf, Frank Polzenhagen 399

Varieties of English around the world: Collocational and cultural profiles / Christian Mair 437

Formulaic language in cultural perspective / Penny Lee 471.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110190878

3110190877

OCLC:

73742887