Diana Van Lancker Sidtis

List of John Benjamins publications for which Diana Van Lancker Sidtis plays a role.

Articles

Under the umbrella term of “familiar phrases,” this paper presents an overview of current understanding of formulaic language, categorizing the phenomena, for heuristic reasons, as formulaic expressions (idioms, proverbs, conversational speech formulas, expletives), lexical bundles (sentence… read more
Rammell, C. Sophia, Diana Van Lancker Sidtis and David B. Pisoni 2017 Perception of formulaic and novel expressions under acoustic degradationThe Mental Lexicon 12:2, pp. 234–262 | Article
Background: Formulaic expressions, including idioms and other fixed expressions, comprise a significant proportion of discourse. Although much has been written about this topic, controversy remains about their psychological status. An important claim about formulaic expressions, that they are… read more