Perspectives on Formulaic Language: Acquisition and Communication

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Formulaicity and Usage-based Language: Linguistic, Psycholinguistic and Acquisitional Manifestations / Regina Wrinert -- Part 1. Formulaic Language in Acquisition and Pedagogy -- 2. The Development of Collocation Use in Academic Texts by Advanced L2 Learners: A Multiple Case Study Approach / Jie Li, Norbert Schmitt -- 3. Idiomatically Speaking: Effects of Task Variation on Formulaic Language in Highly Proficient Users of L2 French and Spanish / Fanny Forsberg, Lars Fant -- 4. Effectiveness of Text Memorization in EFL Learning of Chinese Students / Zkenqiong Dai, Yanren Ding -- 5. Lexical Clusters in an EAP Textbook Corpus / David Wood -- 6. An Investigation of Lexical Bundles in ESP Textbooks and Electrical Engineering Introductory Textbooks / Lin Chen -- Part 2. Identification and Psycholinguistic Processing of Formulaic Language -- 7. Formulaicity in Code-switching: Criteria for Identifying Formulaic Sequences / Kazuhiko Namba -- 8. Holistic Processing of Regular Four-word Sequences: A Behavioural and ERP Study of the Effects of Structure, Frequency, and Probability on Immediate Free Recall / Antoine Tremblay, Harald Baayen -- 9. The Phonology of Formulaic Sequences: A Review / Phoebe Ming Sum Lin -- 10. Processing MWUs: Are MWU Subtypes Psycholinguistically Real? / Georgie Columbus -- Part 3. Communicative Functions of Formulaic Language -- 11. A Text in Speech's Clothing: Discovering Specific Functions of Formulaic Expressions in Beowulf and Blogs / Matt Garley, Benjamin Slade, Marina Terkourafi -- 12. The Semantic Structure of Arabic Idioms / Ashraf Abdou -- 13. Formulaicity and Translation: A Cross-corpora Analysis of English Formulaic Binomials and Their Italian Translations / Salvatore Giammarresi -- Index. Publisher Marketing: Formulaic sequences are more or less fixed word combinations such as idioms, collocations, lexical bundles, phrasal verbs and so on. Study in this area has grown over the past fifteen years, despite the fact that there are no academic journals or conferences devoted to this topic. This edited collection is an attempt to draw together the diverse international work on formulaic language. It features an introduction by Dr. Regina Weinert, a pioneer and expert in the study of formulaic language in acquisition. The authors have an international scope, from China and Italy to Armenia, Canada and Britain. The book is divided into three sections: Formulaic Language in Acquisition and Pedagogy; Identification and Psycholinguistic Processing of Formulaic Language; Communicative Functions of Formulaic Language. The topics of the papers are as varied as the geographic locations of the authors - critical discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, memorization, corpus analysis, specific languages such as Arabic, and even Beowulf and blogging language. This volume represents a step forward for the study of formulaic language, offering diverse, often previously unexplored perspectives from international researchers, advancing knowledge in innovative ways. It makes a fresh contribution the growing number of works on this topic and will appeal to researchers and academics working with formulaic language throughout linguistics. Contributor Bio:  Wood, David David Wood is a former stand-up comedian with a lifelong passion for golf. He currently writes a monthly humor column for Grand Tour magazine as well as golf articles for periodicals and websites. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Visit his website at www. DavidWoodSpeaking.com.