Formulaic language and the lexicon / Alison Wray.
"A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be stored in fixed, or semi-fixed, chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core |
| Summary: | "A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be stored in fixed, or semi-fixed, chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics. It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation of formulaic language as a linguistic solution to a larger, non-linguistic, problem, the promotion of self. The book culminates in a new model of lexical storage, which accommodates the curiosities of non-native and aphasic speech. Parallel analytic and holistic processing strategies are the proposed mechanism which reconciles, on the one hand, our capacity for understanding and producing novel constructions using grammatical knowledge and small lexical units, and on the other, our use of prefabricated material which, though less flexible, also requires less processing."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 051151977X 9780511519772 0511670389 9780511670381 0511671660 9780511671661 0511672934 9780511672934 0511673728 9780511673726 0511674910 9780511674914 1282486624 9781282486621 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511519772 |