The phraseological view of language : a tribute to John Sinclair / edited by Thomas Herbst, Susen Faulhaber, Peter Uhrig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sinclair, John, 1933-2007.

Herbst, Thomas, 1953-

Faulhaber, Susen, 1978-

Uhrig, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis.

Computational linguistics.

Linguistics--Methodology.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents the results of the international symposium Chunks in Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics, held at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to honour John Sinclair's contribution to the development of linguistics in the second half of the twentieth century. The main theme of the book, highlighting important aspects of Sinclair's work, is the idiomatic character of language with a focus on chunks (in the sense of prefabricated items) as extended units of meaning. To pay tribute to Sinclair's enormous impact on research in this field, the volume contains two contributions which deal explicitly with his work, including material from unpublished manuscripts. Beyond that, the articles cover different aspects of chunks ranging from more theoretically-oriented to more applied papers, in which foreign language teaching and the computational application of the insights about the nature of language provided by corpus research play an important role. The volume demonstrates the wide applicability and relevance of the notion of chunks by bringing together research from different fields of linguistics such as theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and foreign language teaching, and thus provides an interdisciplinary view on the impact of idiomaticity in language.

Contents:

Frontmatter

I John McH. Sinclair and his contribution to linguistics

Preface / Faulhaber, Susen / Herbst, Thomas / Uhrig, Peter

Contents

A tribute to John McHardy Sinclair (14 June 1933-13 March 2007) / Stubbs, Michael

Corpus, lexis, discourse: a tribute to John Sinclair / Johansson, Stig

II The concept of collocation: theoretical and pedagogical aspects

Choosing sandy beaches - collocations, probabemes and the idiom principle / Herbst, Thomas

Sinclair revisited: beyond idiom and open choice / Siepmann, Dirk

Accessing second-order collocation through lexical co-occurrence networks / Mollet, Eugene / Wraf, Alison / Fitzpatrick, Tess

From phraseology to pedagogy: challenges and prospects / Granger, Sylviane

Chunks and the effective learner - a few remarks concerning foreign language teaching and lexicography / Gotz, Dieter

Exploring the phraseology of ESL and EFL varieties / Nesselhauf, Nadja

III Variation and change

Wnting the history of spoken standard English in the twentieth century / Mair, Christian

Prefabs in spoken English / Mittmann, Brigitta

Observations on the phraseology of academic writing: local patterns - local meanings? / Römer, Ute

Collocational behaviour of different types of text / Uhrig, Peter / Götz-Votteler, Katrin

IV Computational aspects

Corpus linguistics, generative grammar and database semantics / Hausser, Roland

Chunk parsing in corpora / Görz, Günther / Schellenberger, Günter

German noun+verb collocations in the sentence context: morphosyntactic properties contributing to idiomaticity / Held, Ulrich

Author index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613400574

9781283400572

128340057X

9783110257014

3110257017

OCLC:

1002242362