Phraseology and culture in English
edited by Paul Skandera.
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Berlin ; New York : : Mouton de Gruyter, , c2007.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (524 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Preface; Contents; Prologue; Developments in the study of formulaic language since 1970: A personal view; Focus on particular lexemes; Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for the study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings; Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence from collocations and elsewhere; Enjoy!: The (phraseological) culture of having fun; Hot, heiß, and gorjachij: A case study of collocations in English, German, and Russian; Focus on types of idioms. - Collections of proverbs and proverb dictionaries: Some historical observations on what's in them and what's not (with a note on current "gendered" proverbs)Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview of New England; Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian English; Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness in spoken discourse; Focus on use-related varieties: Registers; Lexical developments in greenspeaking; The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field and its cultural construction. - Formulaic language in cultural perspectiveIndex. - Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type perspective: The conventionalization of routine phrases in answering-machine messagesFocus on user-related varieties: Dialects and ethnolects; Greetings as an act of identity in Tristan da Cunha English: From individual to social significance?; Multiword units in Aboriginal English: Australian cultural expression in an adopted language; Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English; Varieties of English around the world: Collocational and cultural profiles; Epilogue. - This is the first book-length publication devoted entirely to the study of the relation between English phraseology (i.e. the study of formulaic language) and culture. The contributions focus on particular lexemes (e.g. enjoy and its collocates), types of multiword units (e.g. proverbs and similes), use-related varieties (such as the language of tourism or answering-machine messages), and user-related varieties (such as Aboriginal English or African English).
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| ISBN | 9783110190878
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