[PDF] Formulaic Language And The Lexicon eBook

Author : Alison Wray
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,55 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Aphasia
ISBN : 9780511673726

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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.

Author : Norbert Schmitt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 10,36 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027217073

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Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentrating on how FS are acquired and processed by the mind, both in the L1 and L2. The ten original studies in the volume illustrate the L2 acquisition of FS, the relationship between L1 and L2 FS, the relationship between corpus recurrence of FS and their psycholinguistic reality, the processes involved in reading FS, and pedagogical issues in teaching FS. The studies use a wide range of methodologies, many of them innovative, and thus the volume serves as a model for future research in the area. The volume begins with three survey chapters offering a background on the characteristics and measurement of FS.

Author : Alison Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780511519772

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A considerable proportion of our everyday language is "formulaic". It is predictable in form and idiomatic--apparently 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.

Author : David Wood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0567277771

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This is the first book to address formulaic language directly and provide a foundation of knowledge for graduates and researchers in early stages of study of this important language phenomenon. It is also suitable for students of linguistics, applied linguistics, and language teacher education. The information that currently exists is scattered throughout articles and book chapters across a range of subfields of linguistics and applied linguistics. Over the past few decades there has been a steadily increasing interest and research focus on the phenomenon of formulaic language in the fields of linguistics and applied linguistics. Slowly, a consistent definition has emerged, centring around the idea that formulaic sequences are multi-word units with specific meanings or functions, and some evidence points to their being processed mentally as wholes. Researchers from diverse backgrounds have identified the nature and roles of formulaic sequences in language acquisition and production, in the construction of text and discourse, in spoken and written language, and in language teaching. The increasing volume, diversity, and complexity of the state of knowledge about this emerging area of study is marshalled by this intelligent and well-written book.

Author : Elisabeth Piirainen
Publisher : ISSN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110777727

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Research into formulaic patterns has been mainly focused on a few standard languages. The volume shifts this focus by centering the investigation on new data, including data from lesser-used languages, languages spoken outside Europe, linguistic var

Author : Alison Wray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 0194423093

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Presents a framework for examining the existence and function of formulaic language and tests it extensively against language data within a wide variety of language samples. Formulaic language is a fast-growing area of applied linguistic research, and the author is a key figure in this field.

Author : Andreas Buerki
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110880098X

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A substantial proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic', that is, it consists of oft-repeated chunks. From pause fillers such as you know, to phrases such as Many thanks!, Is this seat taken? or strong tea, they form a phenomenon central in language. This important new book investigates formulaic language from the point of view of language change. Employing a novel quantitative and data-led approach, it traces and analyses change in phraseology across 20th Century German as used in Switzerland. Drawing on nearly 20 million words of textual evidence, it shows that social and cultural change in the speech community is the predominant motivator of change, though other factors are also at play. The book demonstrates a close link between language change and the culture of the speech community, arguing that this has repercussions for the study of language in general, as well as the study of society and history.

Author : David Wood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2010-04-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1441150471

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This edited collection draws together diverse international work on formulaic language such as such as idioms, collocations, lexical bundles and phrasal verbs.

Author : Roberta Corrigan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027229953

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Author : Roberta Corrigan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027290164

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This book is the second of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first in the field. The authors of the papers in this volume represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed come from a variety of languages, including Arabic, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish, and include analyses of styles and genres within these languages. While the first volume focuses on the very definition of linguistic formulae and on their grammatical, semantic, stylistic, and historical aspects, the second volume explores how formulae are acquired and lost by speakers of a language, in what way they are psychologically real, and what their functions in discourse are. Since most of the papers are readily accessible to readers with only basic familiarity with linguistics, the book may be used in courses on discourse structure, pragmatics, semantics, language acquisition, and syntax, as well as being a resource in linguistic research.