Formulaic Sequences

Author : Norbert Schmitt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588115003

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Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentrating on how FS are acquired and processed by the mind, both in the L1 and L2. The ten original studies in the volume illustrate the L2 acquisition of FS, the relationship between L1 and L2 FS, the relationship between corpus recurrence of FS and their psycholinguistic reality, the processes involved in reading FS, and pedagogical issues in teaching FS. The studies use a wide range of methodologies, many of them innovative, and thus the volume serves as a model for future research in the area. The volume begins with three survey chapters offering a background on the characteristics and measurement of FS.

Author : Norbert Schmitt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027217080

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Formulaic Sequences by Norbert Schmitt Pdf

Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentrating on how FS are acquired and processed by the mind, both in the L1 and L2. The ten original studies in the volume illustrate the L2 acquisition of FS, the relationship between L1 and L2 FS, the relationship between corpus recurrence of FS and their psycholinguistic reality, the processes involved in reading FS, and pedagogical issues in teaching FS. The studies use a wide range of methodologies, many of them innovative, and thus the volume serves as a model for future research in the area. The volume begins with three survey chapters offering a background on the characteristics and measurement of FS.

Author : Phoebe Lin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781441132512

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The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences by Phoebe Lin Pdf

To apply the same approaches to analysing spoken and written formulaic language is problematic; to do so masks the fact that the contextual meaning of spoken formulaic language is encoded, to a large extent, in its prosody. In The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences, Phoebe Lin offers a new perspective on formulaic language, arguing that while past research often treats formulaic language as a lexical phenomenon, the phonological aspect of it is a more fundamental facet. This book draws its conclusions from three original, empirical studies of spoken formulaic language, assessing intonation unit boundaries as well as features such as tempo and stress placement. Across all studies, Lin considers questions of methodology and conceptual framework. The corpus-based descriptions of prosody outlined in this book not only deepen our understanding of the nature of formulaic language but have important implications for English Language Teaching and automatic speech synthesis.

Author : Qing Ma
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 3039116665

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Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition by Qing Ma Pdf

This book offers readers a basic grounding in L2 vocabulary acquisition. In addition, it provides theoretical analyses and empirical data regarding Chinese learners of English: their specific learning difficulties, needs, strategies, etc. The book provides an overview of the research in L2 vocabulary acquisition in the last two decades. Linguistic, psycholinguistic, socio-cultural, neurolinguistic, and corpus linguistics analyses are considered. The book constructs a comprehensive framework for Computer Assisted Vocabulary Learning (CAVL). This is achieved by providing an overview of vocabulary learning in CALL and then proposing a big framework within which most vocabulary learning programs can be conceptualized. The author then gives a detailed account of how Chinese learners approach English vocabulary learning. She provides an up-to-date picture of the overall situation regarding the language policies adopted, the traditional, orthodox approach to language learning, and the recent reforms implemented in Chinese universities. General and specific vocabulary learning difficulties encountered by Chinese learners are documented and analysed and empirical studies are reported.

Author : Anna Siyanova-Chanturia,Ana Pellicer-Sánchez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351797566

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Understanding Formulaic Language by Anna Siyanova-Chanturia,Ana Pellicer-Sánchez Pdf

Understanding Formulaic Language: A Second Language Acquisition Perspective brings together leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary account of the acquisition, processing, and use of formulaic language. Contributors present three distinct but complementary perspectives on the study of formulaic language – cognitive/psycholinguistic, socio-cultural/pragmatic, and pedagogical – to highlight new work as well as directions for future work. This book is an essential resource for established researchers and graduate students in second language acquisition and pedagogy, corpus and cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.

Author : Aleksandar Trklja,Łukasz Grabowski
Publisher : Language Science Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783961103102

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Formulaic language by Aleksandar Trklja,Łukasz Grabowski Pdf

The notion of formulaicity has received increasing attention in disciplines and areas as diverse as linguistics, literary studies, art theory and art history. In recent years, linguistic studies of formulaicity have been flourishing and the very notion of formulaicity has been approached from various methodological and theoretical perspectives and with various purposes in mind. The linguistic approach to formulaicity is still in a state of rapid development and the objective of the current volume is to present the current explorations in the field. Papers collected in the volume make numerous suggestions for further development of the field and they are arranged into three complementary parts. The first part, with three chapters, presents new theoretical and methodological insights as well as their practical application in the development of custom-designed software tools for identification and exploration of formulaic language in texts. Two papers in the second part explore formulaic language in the context of language learning. Finally, the third part, with three chapters, showcases descriptive research on formulaic language conducted primarily from the perspectives of corpus linguistics and translation studies. The volume will be of interest to anyone involved in the study of formulaic language either from a theoretical or a practical perspective.

Author : Asako Yoshitomi,Tae Umino,Masashi Negishi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027233165

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Readings in Second Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition by Asako Yoshitomi,Tae Umino,Masashi Negishi Pdf

The selected contributions of this volume focuses on various issues related to second language pedagogy and second language acquisition in the Japanese context. Part I covers such topics as discourse pragmatics and cross-cultural pragmatics in language teaching; the instruction of conversation through training in story telling skills; task activities as a means for grammarization in grammar teaching; the development of a computerized speaking test and a proficiency scale for EFL learners; and the social aspects of the language teacher expertise. Part II deals with the cognitive transformation involved in the acquisition of syntactic structures; the application of ZPD to adult learners not only in terms of interpersonal interaction but also through interfacing with other media; examination of learners' narrative data to analyze linguistic and gestural reference and to investigate learners' use of phrasal verbs; learner's strategy use in self-instruction that utilizes audiovisual materials; and network computer technology in computer-assisted language learning.

Author : David Wood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441138156

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Perspectives on Formulaic Language by David Wood Pdf

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.

Author : Phoebe Lin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441100856

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The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences by Phoebe Lin Pdf

To apply the same approaches to analysing spoken and written formulaic language is problematic; to do so masks the fact that the contextual meaning of spoken formulaic language is encoded, to a large extent, in its prosody. In The Prosody of Formulaic Sequences, Phoebe Lin offers a new perspective on formulaic language, arguing that while past research often treats formulaic language as a lexical phenomenon, the phonological aspect of it is a more fundamental facet. This book draws its conclusions from three original, empirical studies of spoken formulaic language, assessing intonation unit boundaries as well as features such as tempo and stress placement. Across all studies, Lin considers questions of methodology and conceptual framework. The corpus-based descriptions of prosody outlined in this book not only deepen our understanding of the nature of formulaic language but have important implications for English Language Teaching and automatic speech synthesis.

Author : Stanislaw Goźdź-Roszkowski,Gianluca Pontrandolfo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315445717

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Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings by Stanislaw Goźdź-Roszkowski,Gianluca Pontrandolfo Pdf

This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of different legal and institutional contexts. This recent interest has been mainly sparked by the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the centrality of phraseological patterns in language and provided researchers with new and powerful analytical tools. However, there have been relatively few empirical studies of word combinations in the domain of law and in the many different contexts where legal discourse is used. This book seeks to address this gap by presenting some of the latest developments in the study of this linguistic phenomenon from corpus-based and interdisciplinary perspectives. The volume draws on current research in legal phraseology from a variety of perspectives: translation, comparative/contrastive studies, terminology, lexicography, discourse analysis and forensic linguistics. It contains contributions from leading experts in the field, focusing on a wide range of issues amply illustrated through in-depth corpus-informed analyses and case studies. Most contributions to this book are multilingual, featuring different legal systems and legal languages. The volume will be a valuable resource for linguists interested in phraseology as well as lawyers and legal scholars, translators, lexicographers, terminologists and students who wish to pursue research in the area.

Author : Hugh Bishop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89089234439

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The Noticing of Formulaic Sequences by Second Language Readers by Hugh Bishop Pdf

Author : David Wood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780567277770

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Fundamentals of Formulaic Language by David Wood Pdf

This is the first book to address formulaic language directly and provide a foundation of knowledge for graduates and researchers in early stages of study of this important language phenomenon. It is also suitable for students of linguistics, applied linguistics, and language teacher education. The information that currently exists is scattered throughout articles and book chapters across a range of subfields of linguistics and applied linguistics. Over the past few decades there has been a steadily increasing interest and research focus on the phenomenon of formulaic language in the fields of linguistics and applied linguistics. Slowly, a consistent definition has emerged, centring around the idea that formulaic sequences are multi-word units with specific meanings or functions, and some evidence points to their being processed mentally as wholes. Researchers from diverse backgrounds have identified the nature and roles of formulaic sequences in language acquisition and production, in the construction of text and discourse, in spoken and written language, and in language teaching. The increasing volume, diversity, and complexity of the state of knowledge about this emerging area of study is marshalled by this intelligent and well-written book.

Author : Züleyha ÜNLÜ ,Erkan KÜLEKÇİ
Publisher : Efe Akademi Yayınları
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9786256452053

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English for Academic Purposes in Turkey: Reflections from the Territory by Züleyha ÜNLÜ ,Erkan KÜLEKÇİ Pdf

CHAPTER-1: INTRODUCTION Züleyha ÜNLÜ, Erkan KÜLEKÇİ CHAPTER-2: EAP APPROACHES AND METHODS Murat ATA CHAPTER-3: EAP MATERIALS Aysel EYERCI CHAPTER-4 DATA-DRIVEN LEARNING IN EAP WRITING Tuba ARABACI ATLAMAZ, Mustafa ÖZER CHAPTER-5: PHRASEOLOGY IN EAP CONTEXT: ISSUES OF ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF FORMULAIC SEQUENCES Serpil UÇAR CHAPTER-6: ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK AS AN EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE FOR NOVICE EAP WRITERS: A CASE STUDY ON STUDENT REACTIONS AND INSTRUCTOR EXPECTATIONS Didem ERDEL CHAPTER-7: SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING PRACTICES OF TURKISH ACADEMICS AT NATIONAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL-LEVELS: A CASE STUDY FROM TWO UNIVERSITIES Züleyha ÜNLÜ, Erkan KÜLEKÇİ

Author : Alison Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 051151977X

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Formulaic Language and the Lexicon by Alison Wray Pdf

A considerable proportion of our everyday language is "formulaic". It is predictable in form and idiomatic--apparently stored in fixed or semi-fixed chunks. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics. It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation of formulaic language as a linguistic solution to a larger, non-linguistic, problem, the promotion of self.

Author : Roberta Corrigan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027229960

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Formulaic Language by Roberta Corrigan Pdf

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.