Formulaic Language: Acquisition, Loss, Psychological Reality, Functional Applications: Vol 2

Corrigan, Roberta L. (Editor)/ Moravcsik, Edith A. (Editor)/ Ouali, Hamid (Editor)/ Wheatley, Kathleen M. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 9027229961 / ISBN 13: 9789027229960

Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Formulaic Language: Acquisition, Loss, Psychological Reality, Functional Applications: Vol 2
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027229961
• ISBN 13: 9789027229960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.84 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book is the second of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first in the field. The authors of the papers in this volume represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed come from a variety of languages, including Arabic, Japanese, Polish, and Spanish, and include analyses of styles and genres within these languages. While the first volume focuses on the very definition of linguistic formulae and on their grammatical, semantic, stylistic, and historical aspects, the second volume explores how formulae are acquired and lost by speakers of a language, in what way they are psychologically real, and what their functions in discourse are. Since most of the papers are readily accessible to readers with only basic familiarity with linguistics, 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.