Over the last twenty years, phraseology has become a major field of pure and applied research in Western European and North American linguistics. This book is made up of authoritative contributions from leading specialists who examine the increasingly crucial role played by ready-made word-combinations in language acquisition and adult language use. This book is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the subject to be published in English.

• Introduction


• Part 1. Theoretical Perspectives: The Russian Tradition; The Cultural Element


• 2: Igor Mel'cuk: Collocations and Lexical Functions


• 3: Veronika Teliya, Natalya Bragina, Elena Oparina, and Irina Sandomirskaya: Phraseology as a Language of Culture: Its Role in the Representation of a Cultural Mentality


• Part 2. Phraseology in Written and Spoken Corpora


• 4: Rosamund Moon: Frequencies and Forms of Phrasal Lexemes in English


• 5: Bengt Altenberg: On the Phraseology of Spoken English: The Evidence of Recurrent Word-Combinations


• Part 3. Phraseology in Special-Purpose Languages and Foreign-Learner Language


• 6: Rosemarie Gläser: The Stylistic Potential of Phraseological Units in the Light of Genre Analysis


• 7: Sylviane Granger: Prefabricated Patterns in Advanced EFL Writing: Collocations and Formulae


• 8: Peter Howarth: The Phraseology of Learners' Academic Writing


• Part 4. Phraseology and the Dictionary


• 9: Thierry Fontenelle: Discovering Significant Lexical Functions in Dictionary Entries


• 10: A. P. Cowie: Phraseological Dictionaries: Some East-West Comparisons


• References


• Index