Perspectives on formulaic language
Subtitle: acquisition and communication
By: edited by David Wood
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781441150479
Subjects: Linguistic models; Discourse analysis; Linguistic analysis (Linguistics); Language acquisition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Formulaicity and usage-based language: linguistic, psycholinguistic and acquisitional manifestations; title: The development of collocation use in academic texts by advanced L2 learners: a multiple case study approach; title: Idiomatically speaking: effects of task variation on formulaic language in highly proficient users of L2 French and Spanish; title: Effectiveness of text memorization in EFL learning of Chinese students; title: Lexical clusters in an EAP textbook corpus; title: An investigation of lexical bundles in ESP textbooks and electrical engineering introductory textbooks; title: Formulaicity in code-switching: criteria for identifying formulaic sequences; title: Holistic processing of regular four-word sequences: a behavioural and ERP study of the effects of structure, frequency, an probability on immediate free recall; title: The phonology of formulaic sequences: a review; title: Processing MWUs: are MWU subtypes psycholinguistically real?; title: A text in speech's clothing: discovering specific functions of formulaic expressions in Beowulf ad blogs; title: The semantic structure of Arabic idioms; title: Formulaicity and translation: a cross-corpora analysis of English formulaic binomials and their Italian translations.