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Formulaic Language and the Lexicon

By Alison Wray

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
9780511519772, 0521773091, 0521022126, 051151977X, 9780521022125, 9780521773096
LCC
P37 .W73 2002
Open Library ID
OL3943790M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1510957 bytes)
Pages
348\344
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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