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Rethinking Idiomaticity: A Usage-Based Approach

by Stefanie Wulff
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781441116444
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl
  • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl
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  • Pages: 256
  • Original Price: GBP 43.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 358 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / Semantics

Being presented with phrases of the kind, 'take the plunge' and 'write a letter', native speakers of English tend to agree that the former is more idiomatic that the latter. What exactly is it about these two phrases that guide speakers' judgements? Adopting a usage-based perspective, this study addresses the question 'which factors do speakers rely upon when assessing the idiomaticity of a construction?'. Rethinking Idiomaticity is the first study to bring together a quantitative corpus-linguistic approach and quantitative judgement data to explore the nature of idiomaticity as a complex concept that comprises semantic and formal variation parameters.

Wulff's fascinating book is suitable for researchers and postgraduates in the fields of lexicography, phraseology, corpus linguistics and those who are employing quantitative approaches. Cognitive linguists interested in the empirical underpinnings of their theoretical assumptions will also find this required reading.

Brookes, Gavin: - Gavin Brookes is Senior Research Associate within the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK.

Mahlberg, Michaela: - Michaela Mahlberg is Humboldt-Professor and Professor of Digital Humanities at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Wulff, Stefanie: -

Stefanie Wulff is Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Technological Communication, University of North Texas, USA.

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