Phraseology and Culture in English /

Phraseology and Culture in English / / ed. by Paul Skandera.

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The proposition that there is a correlation between language and culture or culture-specific ways of thinking can be traced back to the views of Herder and von Humboldt in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is generally accepted today that a language, especially its lexicon, influences its s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Adolphs, Svenja,
Aijmer, Karin,
Bednarek, Monika,
Bublitz, Wolfram,
Doyle, Charles Clay,
Gerbig, Andrea,
Lee, Penny,
Magdalena, Melina,
Mair, Christian,
Malcolm, Ian G.,
Mieder, Wolfgang,
Mühlhäusler, Peter,
Pawley, Andrew,
Peeters, Bert,
Peters, Pam,
Polzenhagen, Frank,
Schreier, Daniel,
Schönefeld, Doris,
Sharifian, Farzad,
Shek, Angela,
Skandera, Paul,
Wierzbicka, Anna,
Wolf, Hans-Georg,
HerausgeberIn:
Skandera, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2007
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 54
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Physical Description:1 online resource (511 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Developments in the study of formulaic language
  • since 1970: A personal view
  • Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a
  • tool for the study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings
  • Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence
  • from collocations and elsewhere
  • Enjoy!: The (phraseological) culture of having
  • fun
  • Hot, heiß, and gorjachij: A case study of
  • collocations in English, German, and Russian
  • Collections of proverbs and proverb dictionaries:
  • Some historical observations on what s in them and what s not (with a
  • note on current genderedŽ proverbs)
  • Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview
  • of New England
  • Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian
  • English
  • Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness
  • in spoken discourse
  • Lexical developments in greenspeaking
  • The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field
  • and its cultural construction
  • Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type
  • perspective: The conventionalization of routine phrases in
  • answering-machine messages
  • Greetings as an act of identity in Tristan da Cunha
  • English: From individual to social significance?
  • Multiword units in Aboriginal English: Australian
  • cultural expression in an adopted language
  • Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural
  • conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English
  • Varieties of English around the world:
  • Collocational and cultural profiles
  • Formulaic language in cultural perspective
  • Backmatter

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