A broad overview of the many kinds of unitary expressions found in everyday verbal and written communication, including their signature meaning, form, and usage, authored by a renowned scholar in the field
Foundations of Familiar Language is renowned scholar Diana Sidtis's new contribution to the study of formulaic language through a wide-ranging overview of a large group of language behaviors that share characteristics of cohesion and familiarity, featuring a rational classification of fixed, familiar expressions into formulaic expressions, lexical bundles, and collocations. This unique volume offers a new approach to linguistic classification and construction grammar through a dual-process model of language competence rooted in linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic observations, combining insights drawn from foundational studies of psychology and neurology with contemporary theories of the differences between formulaic and propositional language. This approach offers a distinct and innovative contribution to scholarship in the field. The text contains resources for further study and research such as examples, research protocols, and lists of fixed, familiar expressions from the past and present. This authoritative volume:
- Describes the current state of knowledge and reviews experimental results, proposals, and models in a clear and straightforward manner
- Offers up-to-date surveys of the role of fixed expressions in education, social sciences, cognitive psychology, and brain science
- Features a wealth of engaging and relatable examples of formulaic expressions (conversational speech formulas, expletives, idioms, and proverbs), lexical bundles, and collocations
- Includes discussion of the use of fixed, familiar expressions in second language learning
- Presents new research data on the neurological foundations of familiar language drawn from clinical observations and experimental studies of stroke, dementia, and Parkinson’s disease
- Contains material from social media, magazines, newspapers, speeches, and other sources to illustrate the importance, abundance, and value of familiar language
Sufficiently in-depth for specialists, while accessible to students and non-specialists, Foundations of Familiar Language is an essential resource for a wide range of readers, including linguists, child language specialists, psychologists, social scientists, neuroscientists, philosophers, educators, teachers of English as a second language, and those working in artificial intelligence and speech synthesis.
Author(s): Diana Sidtis
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 464
City: Hoboken
Foundations of Familiar Language
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Introduction
Incidence of Familiar Language Exemplars
Where Do Fixed, Familiar Expressions Come From?
2 Classification
Identification
Three Classes of Familiar Expressions: Formulaic Expressions, Lexical Bundles, Collocations
Formulaic Expressions
Lexical Bundles
Collocations
Overview of Characteristics and Functions of Familiar Language
How Formulaic Expressions, Lexical Bundles, and Collocations Differ
3 How Is Familiar Language Acquired?
Frequency of Exposure: History and Veridicality
Acquisition: Role of Emotion and Familiarity
Acquisition: Memory for Speech and Language
4 Acquisition
Several Conditions Converge to Promote Acquisition
Acquisition of Fixed, Familiar Expressions in the First Language
Acquisition of Fixed, Familiar Expressions in the Second Language
Familiar Language Representation Compared in First and Second Language
5 Prosodic and Phonetic Characteristics of Fixed,
Familiar Expressions
Stereotyped Prosodic Form in Fixed Expressions
Detailed Knowledge of Prosodic Features
Acoustic Studies
6
Familiar Language in Psychiatric and Neurologic Disorders
Psychiatric Disorders
The Neurology of Familiar Language
Stroke: Residual Speech and Familiar Phrases
Familiar Phrases in Speech Therapy
Specialized Functions of the Cerebral Hemispheres
The Right Hemisphere and Familiar Language
Cortical–Subcortical Dimension
Functional Imaging Studies of Fixed Expressions
7 Summing Up: Dual- or Multiprocess Model of
Language Function?
The Linguistic View
The Psychological Perspective
Observations from Cerebral Processing
Familiar Language – Its Daunting Heterogeneity
Appendix I: Listing Accumulated by C. Fillmore, 1973 (2050 items)
Appendix II: Russell Baker: New York Times, the 1978
Commandments
Appendix III: Selected Familiar Expressions Listed in
Chiardi, 1987
Appendix IV: Familiar Expressions Contributed by Students
as Heard in Daily Communicative Interactions
Appendix Va: Formulaic Expressions as Encountered Every Day
Over a Few Years
Appendix Vb: Lexical Bundles Encountered Every Day Over the
Past Few Years
Appendix Vc: Collocations Encountered Every Day in the
Past Few Years
Appendix VI: Schemata Accumulated from Current Communications
Appendix VII: German Proverbs Drawn from Hain (1951), Set
Up in Survey Style to Assess Knowledge of Current Native Speakers of German
Appendix VIII: A Dialogue Composed Entirely of Movie Titles
Appendix IX: Formulaic Expressions Captured from On-line Viewing
of the Film “Some Like It Hot”
Appendix X: Familiar Expressions from Newspapers: Class, Subset,
Provenance, and Change of Form or Meaning
Appendix XI: Essential Nomenclature for Cerebral Structures:
Definition, Location, and Function
Appendix XII: Matched Novel and Familiar Expressions; Stimuli for
Rammell, Pisoni, and Van Lancker Sidtis (2018) Study
Appendix XIIIa: Northridge Evaluation of Formulas, Idioms,
and Proverbs in Social Situations
Appendix XIIIb: Northridge Evaluation of Formulas, Idioms,
and Proverbs in Social Situations
Appendix XIV: Familiar and Novel Language Comprehension
Protocol: Instructions and Answer Sheet
Appendix XV: Test Format for Survey: Some Like It Hot Protocol
Appendix XVI: Sample “Grid” from 2006 Used in Preliminary
Studies to Document Subsets of Familiar Expressions in Healthy and Neurological Persons
Appendix XVII: Responsive Naming Test with Expected Answers
(Garidis et al., 2009)
Appendix XVIII: Selected Books and Articles Listing Formulaic
Expressions, Lexical Bundles, and Collocations
Glossary
References
Index
EULA
