Perspectives on formulaic language : acquisition and communication / edited by David Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edited collection draws together diverse international work on formulaic language such as idioms, collocations, lexical bundles and phrasal verbs. Formulaic sequences are more or less fixed word combinations such as idioms, collocations, lexical bundles, phrasal verbs and so on. Study in this area has grown over the past fifteen years, despite the fact that there are no academic journals or conferences devoted to this topic. This edited collection is an attempt to draw together the diverse international work on formulaic language. It features an introduction by Dr Regina Weinert, a pionee

Contents:

Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Formulaicity and Usage-based Language: Linguistic, Psycholinguistic and Acquisitional Manifestations; Part 1: Formulaic Language in Acquisition and Pedagogy; 2. The Development of Collocation Use in Academic Texts by Advanced L2 Learners: A Multiple Case Study Approach; 3. Idiomatically Speaking: Effects of Task Variation on Formulaic Language in Highly Proficient Users of L2 French and Spanish; 4. Effectiveness of Text Memorization in EFL Learning of Chinese Students; 5. Lexical Clusters in an EAP Textbook Corpus

6. An Investigation of Lexical Bundles in ESP Textbooks and Electrical Engineering Introductory TextbooksPart 2: Identification and Psycholinguistic Processing of Formulaic Language; 7. Formulaicity in Code-switching: Criteria for Identifying Formulaic Sequences; 8. Holistic Processing of Regular Four-word Sequences: A Behavioural and ERP Study of the Effects of Structure, Frequency, and Probability on Immediate Free Recall; 9. The Phonology of Formulaic Sequences: A Review; 10. Processing MWUs: Are MWU Subtypes Psycholinguistically Real?; Part 3: Communicative Functions of Formulaic Language

11. A Text in Speech's Clothing: Discovering Specific Functions of Formulaic Expressions in Beowulf and Blogs12. The Semantic Structure of Arabic Idioms; 13. Formulaicity and Translation: A Cross-corpora Analysis of English Formulaic Binomials and Their Italian Translations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612590658

9781282590656

1282590650

9781441138156

1441138153

OCLC:

601887076