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Corrigan, Roberta, Edith Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen M. Wheatley, eds. 2009. Formulaic Language. Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations. (Typological Studies in Language 83). John Benjamins. xxiv+361 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Language as a subject

Annotation

This book is the second of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. 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.