John Benjamins, 2009. — xxiii, 297– 638, I-1– I-19. — (Typological Studies in Language). — ISBN: 9027229961.This book is the second of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first in the field. 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. Since most of the papers are readily accessible to readers with only basic familiarity with linguistics, the book may be used in courses on discourse structure, pragmatics, semantics, language acquisition, and syntax, as well as being a resource in linguistic research.Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulae
Acquisition and loss
Repetition and reuse in child language learning
Formulaic language from a learner perspective: What the learner needs to know
The acquisition and development of the topic marker wa in L1 Japanese: The role of NP-wa? in mother-child interaction
Formulaic expressions in intermediate EFL writing assessment
Connecting the dots to unpack the language
Th effect of awareness-raising on the use of formulaic constructions
Can L2 learners productively use Japanese tense-aspect markers? A usage-based approach
Formulaic and novel language in a ‘dual process’ model of language competence: Evidence from surveys, speech samples, and schemata
Psychological reality
The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (2): Affective priming
Frequency and the emergence of prefabs: Evidence from monitoring
Functional explanations
Formulaic argumentation in scientific discourse
Accepting responsibility at defendants’ sentencing hearings: No formulas for success
Decorative symmetry in ritual (and everyday) language
Time management formulaic expressions in English and Thai
Routinized uses of the fist person expression for me in conversational discourse
