Formulaic Language and the Lexicon

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.

Author: Alison Wray,Wray Alison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/10/2005
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9780521022125

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