Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English'a Corpus-Based Approach'

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-19-823614-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moon, Rosamund

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Lexikologie, Lexikographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Introduction and Background

- 2: Collocation and Chunking

- 3: Corpus and Computer

- 4: Frequencies and FEIs

- 5: Lexical and Grammatical Form

- 6: Variation

- 7: Ambiguity, Polysemy, and Metaphor

- 8: Discoursal Functions of FEIs

- 9: Evaluation and Interactional Perspectives

- 10: Cohesion and FEIs

- 11: Afterword