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Publication details [#9732]

Verschueren, Jef. 1981. The semantics of forgotten routines. In Coulmas, Florian, ed. Conversational routine: Explorations in standardized communication situations and prepatterned speech. Mouton. pp. 133–153.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

formulaic expression | lexical gap | metapragmatic term | saliency

Annotation

An overview is presented of a number of conversational routines for which speakers of English and Dutch do not have descriptive verbials (i.e. verbs and verb-like expressions) available. These 'lexical gaps' are explained in terms of the cognitive salience of the routines in question.