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E-book Formulaic Language : Theories and Methods

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Of the many types of multiword expressions identified in the literature, the cur-rent study focuses on a small, structurally defined set of possible prefabricatedsequences (prefabs), in particular, attributive adjective-noun sequences as usedin American English conversation. The paper examines the role of frequency of One source of interest in multiword expressions (MWEs) derived from corpusstudies, which have showed that certain strings of words tend to recur. Thusfrequency of occurrence in a corpus can be an identifier of collocations (Jones& Sinclair 1974) and lexical bundles (Biber et al. 1999). As texts and corpora arecreated by language users, it is proposed that such recurring expressions are alsocharacterized as cognitive or production units that, asPawley & Syder (1983)putit, have the effect of producing nativelike selection and nativelike fluency (seealsoSiyanova-Chanturia & Martinez 2015). Only by being entrenched in mem-ory storage can such units be recognized as conventional and at the same timeserve to facilitate production and comprehension (Langacker 2008).Ellis (1996)points out that such units are the result of the domain-general process of chunk-ing by which memory is organized into recurring sequences.Bybee (1998;2002;2010) argues further that the sequential chunks of language use are the basis ofconstructions and constituent structure.From a cognitive-processing perspective, it has not been established how muchrepetition is required to form a linguistic chunk. Certainly, high levels of repe-tition lead to routinization and the formation of constructions, to grammatical-ization, to semantic/pragmatic change and phonological reduction (Bybee 2003;Haiman 1994;Croft 2000). But it is undeniable that there are many word se-quences recognized as conventionalized that are relatively low frequency. Forexample, the phrasevanishingly rareoccurs only 13 times in the 600 million wordCOCA corpus (Davies 2008) compared to another possible MWEbroad spectrumwhich occurs 521 times.Hoffman (2004)argues that grammaticalization can alsooccur among phrases or constructions that are not of high frequency. He pro-poses that if a certain phrase is conventionalized as the preferred way of express-ing a concept in a certain speech community, then it may be more salient thanits frequency in corpora would predict. Conventionalization comes about by tacitagreement among speech participants, but only one or two repetitions may beenough to establish that agreement, as evidenced by the fact that language userscommand rare words and idioms that are infrequent, but widely known (Wray2002: 30–31).

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

410 TRK f

Penerbit

Berlin : Language Science Press., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

241 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783961103102

Klasifikasi

410

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

vol.5

Subjek

Linguistics

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