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OverviewFormulaic sequences are more or less fixed word combinations such as idioms, collocations, lexical bundles, phrasal verbs and so on. Study in this area has grown over the past fifteen years, despite the fact that there are no academic journals or conferences devoted to this topic. This edited collection is an attempt to draw together the diverse international work on formulaic language. It features an introduction by Dr. Regina Weinert, a pioneer and expert in the study of formulaic language in acquisition. The authors have an international scope, from China and Italy to Armenia, Canada and Britain. The book is divided into three sections: Formulaic Language in Acquisition and Pedagogy; Identification and Psycholinguistic Processing of Formulaic Language; Communicative Functions of Formulaic Language. The topics of the papers are as varied as the geographic locations of the authors - critical discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, memorization, corpus analysis, specific languages such as Arabic, and even Beowulf and blogging language. This volume represents a step forward for the study of formulaic language, offering diverse, often previously unexplored perspectives from international researchers, advancing knowledge in innovative ways. It makes a fresh contribution the growing number of works on this topic and will appeal to researchers and academics working with formulaic language throughout linguistics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David WoodPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation ISBN: 9781441138156ISBN 10: 1441138153 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 02 February 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of Contents1. Introduction: The contribution of formulaic language to fundamental debates in linguistics, Weinert, R. (University of Sheffield, UK); Part 1: Formulaic Language in Acquisition and Pedagogy; 2 Acquisition of academic adjective-noun collocations, Schmitt, N., and Li, J. (University of Nottingham, UK); 3. Idiomatic speech: The effect of task variation and target language in the use of formulaic sequences by L2 users of French and Spanish Forsberg, F. (Stockholm University, Sweden); 4. Effectiveness of Text Memorization in EFL Learning of Chinese Students, Dai, Z., and Ding, Y. (Nanjing University, China); 5. Lexical bundles in an EAP corpus, Wood, D. (Carleton University, USA); 6. Lexical bundles in introductory electrical engineering textbooks and ESP materials, Chen, L. (Carleton University, USA); Part 2: Identification and Psycholinguistic Processing of Formulaic Language; 7. Formulaicity in Code-Switching: criteria for identifying formulaic sequences, Kazuhiko, N.; 8. Lexical bundles and working memory: an ERP study, Tremblay, A. (University of Alberta, Canada); 9. Phonological aspects of the identification and the psycholinguistic processing of formulaic sequences, Lin, P. (University of Nottingham); 10. On the comparative processing of different PLI structures - an eyetracking study, Columbus, G. (University of Alberta, Canada); Part 3: Communicative Functions of Formulaic Language; 11. Linguistic survey of marriage vows in the framework of critical discourse analysis, Arakelyan, S. (Eurasia University, Armenia); 12. A text in speech's clothing: Discovering specific functions of formulaic expressions in Beowulf and blogs, Garley, M., Slade, B. and Terkourafi, M. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA); 13. Semantic behavior of Arabic idioms, Abdou, A. (University of Manchester, UK); 14. Formulaicity and translation: a cross-corpora analysis of English formulaic binomials and their Italian translations, Giammarresi, S. (University of Palermo, Italy).ReviewsAuthor InformationDavid Wood, Assistant Professor, School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. David Wood teaches applied linguistics at Carleton University, where his research interests lie in formulaic language, acquisition of L2 spoken language and academic discourse, and language teacher education. He has taught English language and applied linguistics in Canada, Greece, and Japan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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