The Phraseological View of Language - A Tribute to John Sinclair (Hardcover)

This volume presents the results of the international symposium Chunks in Corpus Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics, held at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg to honour John Sinclair's contribution to the development of linguistics in the second half of the twentieth century. The main theme of the book, highlighting important aspects of Sinclair's work, is the idiomatic character of language with a focus on chunks (in the sense of prefabricated items) as extended units of meaning. To pay tribute to Sinclair's enormous impact on research in this field, the volume contains two contributions which deal explicitly with his work, including material from unpublished manuscripts. Beyond that, the articles cover different aspects of chunks ranging from more theoretically-oriented to more applied papers, in which foreign language teaching and the computational application of the insights about the nature of language provided by corpus research play an important role. The volume demonstrates the wide applicability and relevance of the notion of chunks by bringing together research from different fields of linguistics such as theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics and foreign language teaching, and thus provides an interdisciplinary view on the impact of idiomaticity in language.

General

Imprint:	de Gruyter Mouton
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	November 2011
First published:	2012
Editors:	Thomas Herbst • Susen Faulhaber • Peter Uhrig
Dimensions:	230 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-025688-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Semantics (meaning) > General
LSN:	3-11-025688-6
Barcode:	9783110256888

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