Rethinking Idiomaticity [[electronic resource] ] : A Usage-based Approach
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| Autore: |
Wulff Stefanie
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| Titolo: |
Rethinking Idiomaticity [[electronic resource] ] : A Usage-based Approach
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Continuum International Publishing, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 401.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Idioms |
| Languages & Literatures | |
| Philology & Linguistics | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Theoretical issues; 2 Methodological issues; 3 Compositionality; 4 Flexibility measures; 5 The idiomatic variation continuum; 6 The idiomaticity continuum; 7 Towards a new model of idiomaticity; Appendices; References; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 conc |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Rethinking idiomaticity |
| ISBN: | 1-4411-8495-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821805303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Corpus and Discourse