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General Phraseology
Theory and Practice
This book presents a 100% novel approach to phraseology: A language-universal deductive calculus of all theoretically possible phraseological expressions (= phrasemes) is proposed, implemented in 51 rigorously defined notions. Nine major classes of phrasemes are established and illustrated: lexemic idioms (shoot the breeze), lexemic collocations (pay a visit; helicopter parents), lexemic nominemes (the Northern Palmyra) and lexemic clichés (What’s your name?; to put it differently); morphemic idioms (forget), morphemic collocations (Londoner ~ Muscovite), morphemic nominemes (Greenland) and morphemic clichés (antidepressant); and syntactic idioms (Her be late?!?). An additional class of pragmatically constrained lexemic expressions is described: pragmatemes (No parking; At attention!; Roger.). Each phraseme class is supplied with precise methodology for a lexicographic description; a number of lexical entries for representatives of all classes are given. The language data come from English and Russian. General Phraseology: Theory and Practice is meant as a contribution towards the elaboration of a unified notional system for linguistics.
[Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 36] 2023. xiv, 281 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 February 2023
Published online on 14 February 2023
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments | pp. xii–12
- Abbreviations and notations | pp. xiii–xiv
- Introduction | pp. 1–8
- Chapter 1. Phraseology as a linguistic discipline | pp. 9–22
- Chapter 2. The notion of phraseme | pp. 23–39
- Chapter 3. Lexemic phrasemes and their typology | pp. 40–48
- Chapter 4. Idioms-1: The theory | pp. 49–91
- Chapter 5. Idioms-2: Lexicographic description of three Russian idioms | pp. 92–111
- Chapter 6. Collocations | pp. 112–136
- Chapter 7. Nominemes | pp. 137–140
- Chapter 8. Clichés | pp. 141–158
- Chapter 9. Pragmatemes | pp. 159–165
- Chapter 10. Morphemic phrasemes | pp. 166–183
- Chapter 11. Syntactic phrasemes | pp. 184–208
- Conclusions | pp. 209–213
- Appendix. Lexical functions | pp. 215–228
- References | pp. 229–237
- Definition index | pp. 239–244
- Notion and term index: (with a glossary) | pp. 245–274
- Index of lexical expressions | pp. 275–280
- Language Index
“General Phraseology can be considered a must-read for anyone interested in applied linguistics. Igor Mel'cuk presents in this book, in a very clear and precise manner, the knowledge and notions necessary to understand linguistics applied to phraseology from a comprehensive perspective, as the title of the work indicates. Its well-ordered structure makes it easy to read and guarantees a good understanding of its content, both for a student and for any linguistics professional interested in phraseology.”
Vanesa Freire Armada, Universidade de Vigo, in Studii de lingvistică 13.2, 2023
“[C]et ouvrage sera indéniablement une référence de travail très complète pour aborder les phénomènes phraséologiques sous un angle formel, méthodique et rigoureux. Assurément, un ouvrage qui pose certaines des bases de la phraséologie moderne.”
Alexis Ladreyt, Université Grenoble Alpes/LIDILEM, in revue LIDIL 69 (2024)
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