Formulaic language and new data : theoretical and methodological implications The existence of formulaic patterns has been attested to all languages of the world. However systematic research in this field has been focused on only a few European standard languages with a rich literary tradition and a high degree of written norm. It was on the basis of these data that the theoretical framework and methodological approaches were developed.The volume shifts this focus by centering the investigation on new data including data from lesser used languages and dialects extra european languages linguistic varieties mostly used in spoken domains as well as at previous historical stages of language development. Their inclusion challenges the existing postulates at both a theoretical and methodological level.Areas of interest include the following questions: What is formulaic in these types of languages varieties and dialects Are the criteria developed within the framework of phraseological research applicable to new data Can any specific types of formulaic patterns and or any specific features of regular (already known) types of formulaic patterns be observed and how do they emerge What methodological difficulties need to be overcome when dealing with new data Frontmatter Acknowledgments Content Introduction: Formulaic Language and New Data Filatkina Natalia Stumpf Sören Pfeiffer Christian Part I: Lesser Used and Areally Limited Languages Lesser Used Languages and their Contribution to the Study of Formulaic and Figurative Language Piirainen Elisabeth Areal Variation and Change in the Phraseology of Contemporary German Elspaß Stephan An Analysis of Basque Collocations Formed by Onomatopoeia and Verbs in a Translational Corpus of Literary Texts Part II: Languages Spoken outside Europe (How) is Formulaic Language Universal Insights from Korean German and English Buerki Andreas Marḥaban: Reconsidering the Criteria of an Arabic Phraseme Eisa Abdullah Formulaic Expressions of Politeness in Jordanian Arabic Social Interactions Badarneh Muhammad A. Part III: Linguistic Varieties Used in Spoken Domains and or Regarded as Conceptually Oral New Pragmatic Idioms in Polish: An Integrated Approach in Pragmateme Research Szerszunowicz Joanna Compositionality: Evidence from Code Switching Keller Mareike Part IV: Earlier Historical Stages of Language Development Insights into a Changing Communal Constructicon Merten Marie Luis Religious Formulae in Historical Lower Class Patient Letters Pfeiffer Christian Schiegg Markus