32.1136, Books: Fixed Expressions: Laury, Ono (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:05:57
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Fixed Expressions: Laury, Ono (eds.)

 


Title: Fixed Expressions 
Subtitle: Building language structure and social action 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 315  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.315 


Editor: Ritva Laury
Editor: Tsuyoshi Ono

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260628 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260628 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260628 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207678 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207678 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207678 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

This volume concerns the structure and use of fixed expressions in a range of
typologically, genetically and areally distinct languages. The chapters
consider the use contexts of fixed expressions, at the same time taking
seriously the need to account for their structural aspects. Formulaicity is
taken here as a central feature of everyday language use, and fixed
expressions as a basic utterance building resource for interaction. Our
crosslinguistic investigation suggests that humans have the propensity to
automatize ways to handle various discourse-level needs for specific
sequential contexts by creating (semi-)fixed expressions based on frequent
patterns. The chapters examine topics such as the degrees and types of
fixedness, the emergence of fixed expressions, their connection to social
action, the new understanding of traditional linguistic categories in light of
fixedness, crosslinguistic variation in types of fixed expressions, as well as
their non-verbal aspects. The volume situates the notion of ‘units’ of
language at the intersection of interaction and formal structure as part of a
larger effort to replace rule-based conceptions of language with a more
dynamic, realistic and pragmatically based model of language. The articles are
based on naturally occurring data, mostly everyday conversation, in English,
Estonian, Finnish, Japanese, and Mandarin, with some crosslinguistic
comparison.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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