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Formulaic Language and the Lexicon (Paperback, Revised)
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Formulaic Language and the Lexicon (Paperback, Revised)
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A considerable proportion of our everyday language is 'formulaic'.
It is predictable in form, idiomatic, and seems to be stored in
fixed, or semi-fixed, chunks. This book explores the nature and
purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the
research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first
language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics.
It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation of
formulaic language as a linguistic solution to a larger,
non-linguistic, problem, the promotion of self. The book culminates
in a new model of lexical storage, which accommodates the
curiosities of non-native and aphasic speech. Parallel analytic and
holistic processing strategies are the proposed mechanism which
reconciles, on the one hand, our capacity for understanding and
producing novel constructions using grammatical knowledge and small
lexical units, and on the other, our use of prefabricated material
which, though less flexible, also requires less processing.
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