Foundations of Familiar Language: Formulaic Expressions, Lexical Bundles, and Collocations at Work and Play

Foundations of Familiar Language
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Introduction
	Incidence of Familiar Language Exemplars
	Where Do Fixed, Familiar Expressions Come From?
2 Classification
	Identification
	Three Classes of Familiar Expressions: Formulaic Expressions, Lexical Bundles, Collocations
	Formulaic Expressions
	Lexical Bundles
	Collocations
	Overview of Characteristics and Functions of Familiar Language
	How Formulaic Expressions, Lexical Bundles, and Collocations Differ
3 How Is Familiar Language Acquired?
	Frequency of Exposure: History and Veridicality
	Acquisition: Role of Emotion and Familiarity
	Acquisition: Memory for Speech and Language
4 Acquisition
	Several Conditions Converge to Promote Acquisition
	Acquisition of Fixed, Familiar Expressions in the First Language
	Acquisition of Fixed, Familiar Expressions in the Second Language
	Familiar Language Representation Compared in First and Second Language
5 Prosodic and Phonetic Characteristics of Fixed,
Familiar Expressions
	Stereotyped Prosodic Form in Fixed Expressions
	Detailed Knowledge of Prosodic Features
	Acoustic Studies
6
Familiar Language in Psychiatric and Neurologic Disorders
	Psychiatric Disorders
	The Neurology of Familiar Language
	Stroke: Residual Speech and Familiar Phrases
	Familiar Phrases in Speech Therapy
	Specialized Functions of the Cerebral Hemispheres
	The Right Hemisphere and Familiar Language
	Cortical–Subcortical Dimension
	Functional Imaging Studies of Fixed Expressions
7 Summing Up: Dual- or Multiprocess Model of
Language Function?
	The Linguistic View
	The Psychological Perspective
	Observations from Cerebral Processing
	Familiar Language – Its Daunting Heterogeneity
Appendix I: Listing Accumulated by C. Fillmore, 1973 (2050 items)
Appendix II: Russell Baker: New York Times, the 1978
Commandments
Appendix III: Selected Familiar Expressions Listed in
Chiardi, 1987
Appendix IV: Familiar Expressions Contributed by Students
as Heard in Daily Communicative Interactions
Appendix Va: Formulaic Expressions as Encountered Every Day
Over a Few Years
Appendix Vb: Lexical Bundles Encountered Every Day Over the
Past Few Years
Appendix Vc: Collocations Encountered Every Day in the
Past Few Years
Appendix VI: Schemata Accumulated from Current Communications
Appendix VII: German Proverbs Drawn from Hain (1951), Set
Up in Survey Style to Assess Knowledge of Current Native Speakers of German
Appendix VIII: A Dialogue Composed Entirely of Movie Titles
Appendix IX: Formulaic Expressions Captured from On-line Viewing
of the Film “Some Like It Hot”
Appendix X: Familiar Expressions from Newspapers: Class, Subset,
Provenance, and Change of Form or Meaning
Appendix XI: Essential Nomenclature for Cerebral Structures:
Definition, Location, and Function
Appendix XII: Matched Novel and Familiar Expressions; Stimuli for
Rammell, Pisoni, and Van Lancker Sidtis (2018) Study
Appendix XIIIa: Northridge Evaluation of Formulas, Idioms,
and Proverbs in Social Situations
Appendix XIIIb: Northridge Evaluation of Formulas, Idioms,
and Proverbs in Social Situations
Appendix XIV: Familiar and Novel Language Comprehension
Protocol: Instructions and Answer Sheet
Appendix XV: Test Format for Survey: Some Like It Hot Protocol
Appendix XVI: Sample “Grid” from 2006 Used in Preliminary
Studies to Document Subsets of Familiar Expressions in Healthy and Neurological Persons
Appendix XVII: Responsive Naming Test with Expected Answers
(Garidis et al., 2009)
Appendix XVIII: Selected Books and Articles Listing Formulaic
Expressions, Lexical Bundles, and Collocations
Glossary
References
Index
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