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Formulaic Language and the Lexicon

Formulaic Language and the Lexicon

Paperback

Foreign Language GeneralLinguistics

ISBN10: 0521022126
ISBN13: 9780521022125
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 10 2005
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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