Lynn E. Grant
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lynn E. Grant is involved.
2024 Responses to English compliments on language ability: A cross‑generational study of Saudi Arabian university female students and lecturers Pragmatics 34:1, pp. 1–27 | Article
Employing a cross-generational perspective, this study attempts to deepen our understanding of the politeness strategies Saudi females use when responding to compliments in English from an English speaker. The study investigated how Saudi females from two generations respond to compliments in an… read more
2016 Chapter 6: Multiword units Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing, Nation, I.S.P., pp. 71–79 | Chapter
2006 How many idioms are there in English? ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 151, pp. 1–14 | Article
The word idiom and its derivatives idiomatic, idiomatically and idiomaticity are used with a wide range of meanings. Idiomatic English is used to refer to fluent language use that sounds like that of a native speaker. Items loosely classed as idioms include colloquial expressions, collocations,… read more
2005 Frequency of ‘core idioms’ in the British National Corpus (BNC) International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10:4, pp. 429–451 | Article
This article looks at how a comprehensive list of one category of idioms, that of ‘core idioms’, was established. When the criteria to define a core idiom were strictly applied to a dictionary of idioms, the result was that the large number of ‘idioms’ was reduced to a small number of ‘core… read more