Many works on formulaic sequences (FS) in L2 have focused on low-proficiency young
learners (eg, Myles et al. 1998) or advanced proficiency adults (eg, Nattinger & DeCarrico …

This article reports on a pilot study into how corpus methods can be applied to the study of
one type of phraseological unit, formulae, in native speaker and learner speech. Formulae …

Many applied and corpus linguists entertain the idea of collocations, and other types of
formulaic language, being processed as unanalysed, or holistic units. It has, indeed, been …

The literature on formulaic language lacks sufficient research on how L2 learners make
progress in native-like formulaicity of their target language. This study analyzed the use of …

A few years ago Anthony Cowie observed that, whereas in the early 1980s “it was still
possible to dismiss phraseology as a linguistic activity of only minority interest and with poor …

This chapter addresses the question of how recognition relates to production in the
acquisition of second language pragmatics. It adopts a rather narrow focus to investigate …

What made you pick up this book? Are you a teacher of English, of English to speakers of
other languages, of literacy, or of languages other than English to English-speakers? Are …

Formulaic speech traditions may well be as old as story telling and 'doing'politeness (Brown
and Levinson, 1987; Ferguson, 1976). The most significant step in uncovering their nature …