Formulaic Language
Volume 1: Distribution and historical change, Volume 2: Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations. 2 vols. set
Published on 20. May 2009
Book
Hardback
724 pages
978-90-272-2997-7 (ISBN)
Description
This two volume collection on formulaic language is among the first ones in the field. The authors of the present book represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed are similarly diverse, including languages such as Arabic, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish and extending to various styles. While volume 1 focuses on the very definition of linguistic formulae and on their grammatical, semantic, stylistic, and historical aspects, volume 2 explores how formulae are acquired and lost by speakers of a language, in what way they are psychologically real, and their functions in discourse. Since most of the papers are readily accessible to readers with only basic familiarity with linguistics, besides being a resource in linguistic research, the book may be used in courses on discourse structure, pragmatics, semantics, language acquisition, and syntax.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2997-7 (9789027229977)
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Content
Preface
Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulae
Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen M. Wheatley
Part I. What is Formulaic Language
Grammarians' languages versus humanists' languages and the place of speech act formulas in models of linguistic competence
Andrew Pawley
Identifying formulaic language: Persistent challenges and new opportunities
Alison Wray
Part II. Structure and distribution
Formulaic tendencies of demonstrative clefts in spoken English
Andreea S. Calude
Formulaic language and the relater category - the case of about
Jean Hudson and Maria Wiktorsson
The aim is to analyze NP: The function of prefabricated chunks in academic texts
Elma Kerz and Florian Haas
Fixedness in Japanese adjectives in conversation: Toward a new understanding of a lexical ('part-of-speech') category
Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson
Genre-controlled constructions in written language quotatives: A case study of English quotatives from two major genres
Jessie Sams
Some remarks on the evaluative connotations of toponymic idioms in a contrastive perspective
Joanna Szerszunowicz
Part III. Historical change
The role of prefabs in grammaticization: How the particular and the general interact in language change
Joan Bybee and Rena Torres Cacoullos
Formulaic models and formulaicity in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic
Giuliano Lancioni
A corpus study of lexicalized formulaic sequences with preposition + hand
Hans Lindquist
The embodiment/culture continuum: A historical study of conceptual metaphor
James J. Mischler, III
From 'remaining' to 'becoming' in Spanish: The role of prefabs in the development of the construction quedar(se) + ADJECTIVE
Damián Vergara Wilson
Author index
Subject index
Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulae
Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen M. Wheatley
Part I. What is Formulaic Language
Grammarians' languages versus humanists' languages and the place of speech act formulas in models of linguistic competence
Andrew Pawley
Identifying formulaic language: Persistent challenges and new opportunities
Alison Wray
Part II. Structure and distribution
Formulaic tendencies of demonstrative clefts in spoken English
Andreea S. Calude
Formulaic language and the relater category - the case of about
Jean Hudson and Maria Wiktorsson
The aim is to analyze NP: The function of prefabricated chunks in academic texts
Elma Kerz and Florian Haas
Fixedness in Japanese adjectives in conversation: Toward a new understanding of a lexical ('part-of-speech') category
Tsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson
Genre-controlled constructions in written language quotatives: A case study of English quotatives from two major genres
Jessie Sams
Some remarks on the evaluative connotations of toponymic idioms in a contrastive perspective
Joanna Szerszunowicz
Part III. Historical change
The role of prefabs in grammaticization: How the particular and the general interact in language change
Joan Bybee and Rena Torres Cacoullos
Formulaic models and formulaicity in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic
Giuliano Lancioni
A corpus study of lexicalized formulaic sequences with preposition + hand
Hans Lindquist
The embodiment/culture continuum: A historical study of conceptual metaphor
James J. Mischler, III
From 'remaining' to 'becoming' in Spanish: The role of prefabs in the development of the construction quedar(se) + ADJECTIVE
Damián Vergara Wilson
Author index
Subject index