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Rethinking idiomaticity : a usage-based approach /
Being presented with phrases of the kind, 'take the plunge' and 'write a letter', native speakers of English tend to agree that the former is more idiomatic that the latter. What exactly is it about these two phrases that guide speakers' judgements? Adopting a usage-based pe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2010.
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| Colección: | Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Being presented with phrases of the kind, 'take the plunge' and 'write a letter', native speakers of English tend to agree that the former is more idiomatic that the latter. What exactly is it about these two phrases that guide speakers' judgements? Adopting a usage-based perspective, this study addresses the question 'which factors do speakers rely upon when assessing the idiomaticity of a construction?'. Rethinking Idiomaticity is the first study to bring together a quantitative corpus-linguistic approach and quantitative judgement data to explore the nature of idiomaticity as a complex conc. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-235) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781441184955 1441184953 |