Rethinking Idiomaticity: A Usage-Based Approach
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 p…
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Weitere Autoren: Mahlberg, Michaela (Hrsg.) / Teubert, Wolfgang (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-1644-4
- EAN: 9781441116444
- Produktnummer: 19380875
- Verlag: Continuum 3Pl
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.9 cm x D2.0 cm 378 g
- Gewicht: 378
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