This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language, examining patterns
across research from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language …

My first encounters with formulaic language date back to the mid 1990s during my time as a
teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) …

Formulaic sequences are ubiquitous in language use (Nattinger and DeCarrico, 1992: 66)
and they make up a large proportion of any discourse. Erman and Warren (2000) calculated …

This article briefly summarizes key developments in formulaic language research over the
past 5 years, before exploring certain assumptions typically made, regarding the coherence …

Formulaic language has become one of the major issues in applied linguistics in the new
millennium. Although relatively new to many scholars, it has been an important topic for …

Natural language makes considerable use of recurrent formulaic patterns of words. This
article triangulates the construct of formula from corpus linguistic, psycholinguistic, and …

Understanding Formulaic Language: A Second Language Acquisition Perspective brings
together leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary account of the …

This article revisits earlier proposals that language learning is, in essence, the learning of
formulaic sequences and their interpretations; that this occurs at all levels of granularity from …

Natural language makes considerable use of formulaic recurrent patterns of words. This
paper triangulates the construct of 'formula'from corpus linguistic, psycholinguistic and …

A look at the abundant research on formulaic language reveals a surprising number of
different labels for the items studied. It is obvious that researchers have not all been …