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Formulaic Language
Volume 1. Distribution and historical change
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 linguistic literature, the creative and innovative aspects of language have been amply highlighted, conventionalized, pre-fabricated, “off-the-shelf” expressions have been paid less attention – an imbalance that this book attempts to remedy. The first of the two volumes addresses the very concept of formulaic language and provides studies that explore the grammatical and semantic properties of formulae, their stylistic distribution within languages, and their evolution in the course of language history. Since most of the papers are readily accessible to readers with only basic familiarity with linguistics, besides being a resource in linguistic research, the book may be used in courses on discourse structure, pragmatics, semantics, language acquisition, and syntax, as well as being a resource in linguistic research.
[Typological Studies in Language, 82] 2009. xxiv, 315 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 June 2009
Published online on 12 June 2009
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface | pp. ix–9
- Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulaeRoberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley | pp. xi–xxiv
- Part I. What is Formulaic Language
- Grammarians' languages versus humanists' languages and the place of speech act formulas in models of linguistic competenceAndrew Pawley | pp. 3–26
- Identifying formulaic language: Persistent challenges and new opportunitiesAlison Wray | pp. 27–52
- Part II. Structure and distribution
- Formulaic tendencies of demonstrative clefts in spoken EnglishAndreea S. Calude | pp. 55–76
- Formulaic language and the relater category – the case of aboutJean Hudson and Maria Wiktorsson | pp. 77–96
- The aim is to analyze NP: The function of prefabricated chunks in academic textsElma Kerz and Florian Haas | pp. 97–116
- Fixedness in Japanese adjectives in conversation: Toward a new understanding of a lexical (‘part-of-speech’) categoryTsuyoshi Ono and Sandra A. Thompson | pp. 117–146
- Genre-controlled constructions in written language quotatives: A case study of English quotatives from two major genresJessie Sams | pp. 147–170
- Some remarks on the evaluative connotations of toponymic idioms in a contrastive perspectiveJoanna Szerszunowicz | pp. 171–184
- Part III. Historical change
- The role of prefabs in grammaticization: How the particular and the general interact in language changeJoan L. Bybee and Rena Torres Cacoullos | pp. 187–218
- Formulaic models and formulaicity in Classical and Modern Standard ArabicGiuliano Lancioni | pp. 219–238
- A corpus study of lexicalized formulaic sequences with preposition + handHans Lindquist | pp. 239–256
- The embodiment/culture continuum: A historical study of conceptual metaphorJames J. Mischler | pp. 257–272
- From ‘remaining’ to ‘becoming’ in Spanish: The role of prefabs in the development of the construction quedar(se) + ADJECTIVEDamián Vergara Wilson | pp. 273–296
- Author index | pp. 297–305
- Subject index | pp. 307–315
“The volume provides a rich read. [...]The label 'formulaic' allows volumes such as the present one to illustrate the pervasiveness of lexcically restricted sequences and to explore them in all their glorious detail.”
Regina Weinert, University of the Basque Country/University of Sheffield, in Folia Linguistica, Vol.44:1 (2010)
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