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Phraseology and culture in English /
<Html> <head><meta http-equiv=content-type content=""text/html; charset=iso-8859-1""></head> <body> This is the first book-length publication devoted entirely to the study of the relation between English phraseology (i.e. the study of formulaic langu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
Mouton de Gruyter,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Topics in English linguistics ;
54. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Contents; Prologue; Developments in the study of formulaic language since 1970: A personal view; Focus on particular lexemes; Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for the study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings; Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence from collocations and elsewhere; Enjoy!: The (phraseological) culture of having fun; Hot, heiß, and gorjachij: A case study of collocations in English, German, and Russian; Focus on types of idioms.
- Collections of proverbs and proverb dictionaries: Some historical observations on what's in them and what's not (with a note on current "gendered" proverbs)Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview of New England; Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian English; Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness in spoken discourse; Focus on use-related varieties: Registers; Lexical developments in greenspeaking; The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field and its cultural construction.
- Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type perspective: The conventionalization of routine phrases in answering-machine messagesFocus on user-related varieties: Dialects and ethnolects; Greetings as an act of identity in Tristan da Cunha English: From individual to social significance?; Multiword units in Aboriginal English: Australian cultural expression in an adopted language; Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English; Varieties of English around the world: Collocational and cultural profiles; Epilogue.