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 linguis...

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Körperschaft: Linguistics Symposium Milwaukee, Wis (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Corrigan, Roberta (HerausgeberIn), Moravcsik, Edith A. 1939- (HerausgeberIn), Ouali, Hamid 19XX- (HerausgeberIn), Wheatley, Kathleen 19XX- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch Tagungsbericht E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2009]
Schriftenreihe:Typological studies in language 82
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:"This two-volume collection presents revised versions of a selection of papers from the 25th UWM Linguistics Symposium on Formulaic Language, held on April 18–21, 2007 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee" - aus dem Vorwort
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 295 Seiten, Seiten I1-I19) Diagramme, Notenbeispiele
ISBN:9789027290175
9027290172
DOI:10.1075/tsl.82