Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English
A Corpus-Based Approach
Series: Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology;
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 26 March 1998
- ISBN 9780198236146
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 242x163x24 mm
- Weight 675 g
- Language English
- Illustrations tables 0
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Short description:
This is a text-based study of fixed expressions, or idioms. Rosamund Moon's central argument is that fixed expressions can only be fully understood if they are considered in the context of the texts in which they occur. She examines several thousand fixed expressions and how they are being used in current English. She argues that examination of the corpus raises questions about many received ideas on fixed expressions and idioms, and suggests that new, use-centred, models are required.
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This is a text-based study of fixed expressions, or idioms. Rosamund Moon's central argument is that fixed expressions can only be fully understood if they are considered together with the texts in which they occur. She provides an overview of this area of lexis in current English. Writing from a lexicologicalrather than a computationalpoint of view, she gives a detailed, descriptivist account of the findings of research into several thousand fixed expressions and idioms, as evidenced in the corpus text, including information about frequencies, syntax, lexical forms and variations, and metaphoricality. The author argues that examination of corpus text raises questions about many received ideas on fixed expressions and idioms, and suggests that new or revised use-centred models are required. Later chapters of the book demonstrate the ideological and discoursal significance of idioms, paying particular attention to the ways in which they convey evaluations and have roles with respect to the information structure and cohesion of texts.
Series information
Series ISBN: 0-19-961811-9
Series Editors: Richard W. Bailey, Noel Osselton, and Gabriele Stein
Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology provides a forum for the publication of substantial scholarly works on all issues of interest to lexicographers, lexicologists, and dictionary users. It is concerned with the theory and history of lexicography, lexicological theory, and related topics such as terminology, and computer applications in lexicography. It focuses attention too on the purposes for which dictionaries are compiled, on their uses, and on their reception and role in society today and in the past.
Table of Contents:
Introduction and Background
Collocation and Chunking
Corpus and Computer
Frequencies and FEIs
Lexical and Grammatical Form
Variation
Ambiguity, Polysemy, and Metaphor
Discoursal Functions of FEIs
Evaluation and Interactional Perspectives
Cohesion and FEIs
Afterword
