Phraseology and the advanced language learner / Svetlana Vetchinnikova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vetchinnikova, Svetlana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phraseology--Study and teaching.

Phraseology.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Figures of speech.

Idioms.

Second language acquisition--Study and teaching.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

xiii, 270 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Phraseology is often thought of as an anomaly and a headache for language learners. However, researchers have tended to focus on just one end of the scale: fairly fixed, conventional multi-word units. Here their special status and any divergence from the standard form are clearly evident. What happens at the other end of the scale? How much and what kind of variability does phraseological patterning tolerate? Svetlana Vetchinnikova explores meaning-shift units (MSUs) in second language usage, acquisition and processing. Importantly, she argues for the value of looking at individual languages and tracing MSUs as they are learned from exposure, used in individual language output and processed in the mind ? and advocates a shift of focus from groups to individuals. This important study develops a unified view on phraseological patterning in second language acquisition and use and the processes which lead to it.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

List of tables

List of figures

1. Introduction

2. From a unit of meaning to a meaning-shift unit

3. L2 use and processing of multi-word units

4. Triangulating usage, exposure and processing

5. Meaning-shift units in L2 learning and use: Usage vs. exposure

6. Meaning-shift units in L2 processing: Usage vs. word association responses

7. Toward the bigger picture

References

Appendix A: A sample word association task

Appendix B: Usage concgrams compared to exposure corpus (Maisa and Kaisa)

Appendix C: Meaning-based responses are 'harder' to give

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108499804

1108499805

OCLC:

1099545192