Formulaic language. Volume 1, Distribution and historical change / edited by Roberta L. Corrigan [and others].

This book is the first of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first ones in the field. The book draws attention to the ritualized, repetitive side of language, which to some estimates make up over 50% of spoken and written text. While in the linguis...

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Other Authors: Corrigan, Roberta
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins, ©2009.
Series:Typological studies in language ; 82.
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Table of Contents:
  • Formulaic Language; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulae; Part 1. What is Formulaic Language; Grammarians' languages versus humanists' languages and the place of speech act formulas in models of; Identifying formulaic language; Part 2. Structure and distribution; Formulaic tendencies of demonstrative clefts in spoken English; Formulaic language and the relater category
  • the case of about; The aim is to analyze NP; Fixedness in Japanese adjectives in conversation.