Patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: patterns, meaningful units and specialized discourses / Rainer Schulze and Ute Römer -- Starting with the small words: Patterns, lexis and semantic sequences / Susan Hunston -- Emphasizers in spoken and written academic discourse: The case of really / Giuliana Diani -- The terroridiom principle between spoken and written discourse / Denise Milizia and Cinzia Spinzi -- N-grams in comparable specialized corpora: Perspectives on phraseology, translation, and pedagogy / Pierfranca Forchini and Amanda Murphy -- From phraseology to culture: Qualifying adjectives in the language of tourism / Elena Manca