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Formulaic language and the lexicon /
A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be 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 fi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'. It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be 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. The book culminates in a new model of lexical storage, which accommodates the curiosities of non-native and aphasic speech. Parallel analytic and holistic processing strategies are the proposed mechanism which reconciles, on the one hand, our capacity for understanding and producing novel constructions using grammatical knowledge and small lexical units, and on the other, our use of prefabricated material which, though less flexible, also requires less processing. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-325) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511674914 0511674910 1107119774 9781107119772 1282486624 9781282486621 9786612486623 6612486627 0511673728 9780511673726 0511671660 9780511671661 0511670389 9780511670381 0511672934 9780511672934 9780511519772 051151977X 9780521022125 0521022126 |