Rethinking idiomaticity : a usage-based approach / Stefanie Wulff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wulff, Stefanie.

Series:

Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.

Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Idioms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Being presented with phrases of the kind, 'take the plunge' and 'write a letter', native speakers of English tend to agree that the former is more idiomatic that the latter. What exactly is it about these two phrases that guide speakers' judgements? Adopting a usage-based perspective, this study addresses the question 'which factors do speakers rely upon when assessing the idiomaticity of a construction?'. Rethinking Idiomaticity is the first study to bring together a quantitative corpus-linguistic approach and quantitative judgement data to explore the nature of idiomaticity as a complex conc

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Theoretical issues; 2 Methodological issues; 3 Compositionality; 4 Flexibility measures; 5 The idiomatic variation continuum; 6 The idiomaticity continuum; 7 Towards a new model of idiomaticity; Appendices; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-235) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-4411-8495-3

OCLC:

682540913