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benjamins.com>Title: Formulaic Sequences Subtitle: Acquisition, processing and use Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ http://www.benjamins.nl/ Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LL_LT_9 Editor: Norbert Schmitt, University of Nottingham Hardback: ISBN: 1588114996, Pages: x, 304 pp., Price: USD 118.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027217076, Pages: x, 304 pp., Price: EUR 98.00 Paperback: ISBN: 1588115003, Pages: x, 304 pp., Price: USD 42.95 Paperback: ISBN: 9027217084, Pages: x, 304 pp., Price: EUR 36.00 Abstract: Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentrating on how FS are acquired and processed by the mind, both in the L1 and L2. The ten original studies in the volume illustrate the L2 acquisition of FS, the relationship between L1 and L2 FS, the relationship between corpus recurrence of FS and their psycholinguistic reality, the processes involved in reading FS, and pedagogical issues in teaching FS. The studies use a wide range of methodologies, many of them innovative, and thus the volume serves as a model for future research in the area. The volume begins with three survey chapters offering a background on the characteristics and measurement of FS. Table of contents Preface viii Formulaic sequences in action: An introduction Norbert Schmitt and Ronald Carter 1--22 Measurement of formulaic sequences John Read and Paul Nation 23--35 Formulaic performance in conventionalised varieties of speech Koenraad Kuiper 37--54 Knowledge and acquisition of formulaic sequences: A longitudinal study Norbert Schmitt, Zolt�n D�rnyei, Svenja Adolphs and Valerie Durow 55--86 Individual differences and their effects on formulaic sequence acquisition Zolt�n D�rnyei, Valerie Durow and Khawla Zahran 87--106 Social-cultural integration and the development of formulaic sequences Svenja Adolphs and Valerie Durow 107--126 Are corpus-derived recurrent clusters psycholinguistically valid? Norbert Schmitt, Sarah Grandage and Svenja Adolphs 127--151 The eyes have it: An eye-movement study into the processing of formulaic sequences Geoffrey Underwood, Norbert Schmitt and Adam Galpin 153--172 Exploring the processing of formulaic sequences through a self-paced reading task Norbert Schmitt and Geoffrey Underwood 173--189 Comparing knowledge of formulaic sequences across L1, L2, L3, and L4 Carol Sp�ttl and Michael McCarthy 191--225 The effect of typographic salience on the look up and comprehension of unknown formulaic sequences Hugh Bishop 227--248 'Here's one I prepared earlier': Formulaic language learning on television Alison Wray 249--268 Facilitating the acquisition of formulaic sequences: An exploratory study in an EAP context Martha A. Jones and Sandra Haywood 269--300 Index Lingfield(s): Language Acquisition Written In: English (Language Code: ENG) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=9353.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue