Phraseology Theory, Analysis, and Applications [Paperback]

Over the last twenty years, phraseology has become a major field of pure and applied research in Western European and North American linguistics. This book is made up of authoritative contributions from leading specialists who examine the increasingly crucial role played by ready-made word-combinations in language acquisition and adult language use. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the subject to be published in English.

Introduction,A. P. Cowie
Part 1. Theoretical Perspectives: The Russian Tradition; The Cultural Element
2. Collocations and Lexical Functions,Igor Mel'cuk
3. Phraseology as a Language of Culture: Its Role in the Representation of a Cultural Mentality,Veronika Teliya, Natalya Bragina, Elena Oparina, and Irina Sandomirskaya
Part 2. Phraseology in Written and Spoken Corpora
4. Frequencies and Forms of Phrasal Lexemes in English,Rosamund Moon
5. On the Phraseology of Spoken English: The Evidence of Recurrent Word-Combinations,Bengt Altenberg
Part 3. Phraseology in Special-Purpose Languages and Foreign-Learner Language
6. The Stylistic Potential of Phraseological Units in the Light of Genre Analysis,Rosemarie Gl??ser
7. Prefabricated Patterns in Advanced EFL Writing: Collocations and Formulae,Sylviane Granger
8. The Phraseology of Learners' Academic Writing,Peter Howarth
Part 4. Phraseology and the Dictionary
9. Discovering Significant Lexical Functions in Dictionary Entries,Thierry Fontenelle
10. Phraseological Dictionaries: Some East-West Comparisons,A. P. Cowie
References
Index

A. P. Cowie is Editor of theInternational Journal of Lexicography