: Paul Skandera
: Phraseology and Culture in English
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110197860
: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 159.40
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: Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft
: English
: 520
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This is the first book-length publication devoted entirely to the study of the relation between English phraseology (i.e. the study of formulaic language) and culture. The contributions focus on particular lexemes (e.g.enjoy and its collocates), types of multiword units (e.g. proverbs and similes), use-related varieties (such as the language of tourism or answering-machine messages), and user-related varieties (such as Aboriginal English or African English).


Paul Skandera, Management Center Innsbruck, Austria.
Frontmatter1
Contents7
Developments in the study of formulaic language since 1970: A personal view13
Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for the study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings59
Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence from collocations and elsewhere89
Enjoy!: The (phraseological) culture of having fun119
Hot, heiß, and gorjachij: A case study of collocations in English, German, and Russian147
Collections of proverbs and proverb dictionaries: Some historical observations on what’s in them and what’s not (with a note on current “gendered” proverbs)191
Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview of New England215
Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian English245
Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness in spoken discourse267
Lexical developments in greenspeaking285
The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field and its cultural construction313
Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type perspective: The conventionalization of routine phrases in answering-machine messages333
Greetings as an act of identity in Tristan da Cunha English: From individual to social significance?363
Multiword units in Aboriginal English: Australian cultural expression in an adopted language385
Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English409
Varieties of English around the world: Collocational and cultural profiles447
Formulaic language in cultural perspective481
Backmatter507