Phraseology: Theory, Analysis, and Applications

A. P. Cowie

OUP Oxford, Aug 27, 1998 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 272 pages

Over the last twenty years phraseology has become an important field of pure and applied research in Western European and North American linguistics. In this book the world's leading specialists examine the crucial role played by ready-made word-combinations in language acquisition and adult language use. After a wide-ranging introduction, the book presents full, critical accounts of the main theoretical approaches, analyses the corpus data and phrase typology, and finally considers the application of phraseology to associated disciplines including lexicography, language learning, stylistics, and computational analysis. This is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the subject to be published in English.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Theoretical Perspectives The Russian Tradition the Cultural Element: 21
• Collocations and Lexical Functions: 23
• Phraseology as a Language of Culture Its Role in the Representation of a Collective Mentality: 55
• Phraseology in Written and Spoken Corpora: 77
• Frequencies and Forms of Phrasal Lexemes in English: 79
• On the Phraseology of Spoken English The Evidence of Recurrent WordCombinations: 101
• Phraseology in SpecialPurpose Languages and ForeignLearner Language: 123
• The Stylistic Potential of Phraseological Units in the Light of Genre Analysis: 125
• Prefabricated Patterns in Advanced EFL Writing Collocations and Formulae: 145
• The Phraseology of Learners Academic Writing: 161
• Phraseology and the Dictionary: 187
• Discovering Significant Lexical Functions in Dictionary Entries: 189
• Phraseological Dictionaries Some EastWest Comparisons: 209
• References: 229
• Index: 245

About the author

A. P. Cowie is Honorary Reader in Lexicography at the School of English, University of Leeds. He is editor of the 'International Journal of Lexicography'. He is also the editor and contributor to 'The Dictionary and the Language Learner' (1987), 'Oxford Advanced Learners' Dictionary of Current English' (fourth edition, 1989), 'Oxford Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs' (1993), and the author of 'English Dictionaries for Foreign Learners: A History' (1999).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Phraseology: Theory, Analysis, and Applications; Oxford Studies in Lexicography and Lexicology
• Editor: A. P. Cowie
• Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1998
• ISBN: 0191584746, 9780191584749
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Computer Science; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching