Foundations of Familiar Language: Formulaic Expressions, Lexical Bundles, and Collocations at Work and Play - Softcover

Sidtis, Diana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119163323 ISBN 13: 9781119163329

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021

Synopsis

A broad overview of the many kinds of unitary expressions found in everyday verbal and written communication, including their signature meaning, form, and usage, authored by a renowned scholar in the field

Foundations of Familiar Language is renowned scholar Diana Sidtis's new contribution to the study of formulaic language through a wide-ranging overview of a large group of language behaviors that share characteristics of cohesion and familiarity, featuring a rational classification of fixed, familiar expressions into formulaic expressions, lexical bundles, and collocations. This unique volume offers a new approach to linguistic classification and construction grammar through a dual-process model of language competence rooted in linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic observations, combining insights drawn from foundational studies of psychology and neurology with contemporary theories of the differences between formulaic and propositional language. This approach offers a distinct and innovative contribution to scholarship in the field. The text contains resources for further study and research such as examples, research protocols, and lists of fixed, familiar expressions from the past and present. This authoritative volume:

• Describes the current state of knowledge and reviews experimental results, proposals, and models in a clear and straightforward manner
• Offers up-to-date surveys of the role of fixed expressions in education, social sciences, cognitive psychology, and brain science
• Features a wealth of engaging and relatable examples of formulaic expressions (conversational speech formulas, expletives, idioms, and proverbs), lexical bundles, and collocations
• Includes discussion of the use of fixed, familiar expressions in second language learning
• Presents new research data on the neurological foundations of familiar language drawn from clinical observations and experimental studies of stroke, dementia, and Parkinson’s disease
• Contains material from social media, magazines, newspapers, speeches, and other sources to illustrate the importance, abundance, and value of familiar language

Sufficiently in-depth for specialists, while accessible to students and non-specialists, Foundations of Familiar Language is an essential resource for a wide range of readers, including linguists, child language specialists, psychologists, social scientists, neuroscientists, philosophers, educators, teachers of English as a second language, and those working in artificial intelligence and speech synthesis.

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About the Author

Diana Sidtis (formerly Van Lancker), PhD, CCC/SLP, is Professor Emerita of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University and Research Scientist at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research in Orangeburg, New York. She is the co-author of Foundations of Voice Studies, which won the 2011 Prose Award for Scholarly Excellence in Linguistics from the American Publishers Association. Her research examining voice, aphasia, motor speech, prosody, and formulaic language has been published in more than 130 peer-reviewed journals and other publications.

From the Back Cover

Foundations of Familiar Language is renowned scholar Diana Sidtis’s new contribution to the study of familiar language through a wide-ranging overview of a large group of language behaviors that share characteristics of cohesion and familiarity, including a rational classification system of familiar language into formulaic expressions, lexical bundles, and collocations. This unique volume offers a new approach to linguistic classification and construction grammar through a dual-process model of language competence rooted in linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic observations.

Combining insights drawn from foundational studies of psychology and neurology with contemporary theories of the differences between formulaic and propositional language, this valuable text provides a distinct and innovative contribution to scholarship in the field. It offers up-to-date surveys of the role of fixed expressions in education, social sciences, cognitive psychology, and brain science, presenting new research data on the neurological foundations of familiar language drawn from clinical observations and experimental studies in stroke, dementia, and Parkinson’s disease.

The text also contains resources for further study and research such as examples, research protocols, and lists of fixed, familiar expressions from the past and present. A wealth of engaging and relatable examples of conversational formulas, expletives, idioms, proverbs, jargon, and other conventionalized expressions drawn from social media, magazines, newspapers, speeches, and other sources make the text relatable and useful for students as well as researchers. Sufficiently in-depth for specialists, while accessible to students and non-specialists, Foundations of Familiar Language is an essential resource for a wide range of readers, including linguists, child language specialists, psychologists, social scientists, neuroscientists, philosophers, educators, teachers of English as a second language, as well as those working in parallel and overlapping fields such as researchers in artificial intelligence and speech synthesis or professionals in advertising, marketing, journalism, and media.

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Foundations of Familiar Language is renowned scholar Diana Sidtis’s new contribution to the study of familiar language through a wide-ranging overview of a large group of language behaviors that share characteristics of cohesion and familiarity, including a rational classification system of familiar language into formulaic expressions, lexical bundles, and collocations. This unique volume offers a new approach to linguistic classification and construction grammar through a dual-process model of language competence rooted in linguistic, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic observations.

Combining insights drawn from foundational studies of psychology and neurology with contemporary theories of the differences between formulaic and propositional language, this valuable text provides a distinct and innovative contribution to scholarship in the field. It offers up-to-date surveys of the role of fixed expressions in education, social sciences, cognitive psychology, and brain science, presenting new research data on the neurological foundations of familiar language drawn from clinical observations and experimental studies in stroke, dementia, and Parkinson’s disease.

The text also contains resources for further study and research such as examples, research protocols, and lists of fixed, familiar expressions from the past and present. A wealth of engaging and relatable examples of conversational formulas, expletives, idioms, proverbs, jargon, and other conventionalized expressions drawn from social media, magazines, newspapers, speeches, and other sources make the text relatable and useful for students as well as researchers. Sufficiently in-depth for specialists, while accessible to students and non-specialists, Foundations of Familiar Language is an essential resource for a wide range of readers, including linguists, child language specialists, psychologists, social scientists, neuroscientists, philosophers, educators, teachers of English as a second language, as well as those working in parallel and overlapping fields such as researchers in artificial intelligence and speech synthesis or professionals in advertising, marketing, journalism, and media.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119163323
• ISBN 13: 9781119163329
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464