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9 February 2010

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Phraseology

An interdisciplinary perspective

Edited by Sylviane Granger and Fanny Meunier
Université Catholique de Louvain

2008. xxviii, 422 pp.
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Long regarded as a peripheral issue, phraseology is now taking centre stage in a wide range of fields. This recent explosion of interest undoubtedly has a great deal to do with the development of corpus linguistics research, which has both demonstrated the key role of phraseological expressions in language and provided researchers with automated methods of extraction and analysis. The aim of this volume is to take stock of current research in phraseology from a variety of perspectives: theoretical, descriptive, contrastive, cultural, lexicographic and computational. It contains overview chapters by leading experts in the field and a series of case studies focusing on a wide range of multiword units: collocations, similes, idioms, routine formulae and recurrent phrases. The volume is an invitation for experienced phraseologists to look at the field with different eyes and a useful introduction for the many researchers who are intrigued by phraseology but need help in finding their way in this rich but complex domain.


Table of contents

List of contributors
xi–xii
Acknowledgements
xiii
Preface
John McH. Sinclair
xv–xviii
Introduction: The many faces of phraseology
Sylviane Granger and Fanny Meunier
xix–xxviii
Part I. Phraseology: theory, typology and terminology
1
1. Phraseology and linguistic theory: A brief survey
Stefan Th. Gries
3–25
2. Disentangling the phraseological web
Sylviane Granger and Magali Paquot
27–49
3. A unified approach to semantic frames and collocational patterns
Willy Martin
51–65
4. Processing of idioms and idiom modifications: A view from cognitive linguistics
Marija Omazić
67–79
5. A very complex criterion of fixedness: Non-compositionality
Maria Helena Svensson
81–93
6. Reassessing the canon: 'Fixed' phrases in general reference corpora
Gill Philip
95–108
Part II. Corpus-based analyses of phraseological units
109
7. Adjective + Noun sequences in attributive or NP-final positions: Observations on lexicalization
Pierre Arnaud, Emmanuel Ferragne, Diana M. Lewis and François Maniez
111–125
8. Phrasal similes in the BNC
Kay Wikberg
127–142
9. Foot and Mouth: The phrasal patterns of two frequent nouns
Hans Lindquist and Magnus Levin
143–158
10. The Good Lord and his works: A corpus-driven study of collocational resonance
Geoffrey C. Williams
159– 173
11. Fixed expressions, extenders and metonymy in the speech of people with Alzheimer's disease
Margaret MacLagan, Boyd H. Davis and Ron Lunsford
175–187
Part III. Phraseology across languages and cultures
189
12. Cross-linguistic phraseological studies: An overview
Jean Pierre Colson
191–206
13. Figurative phraseology and culture
Elisabeth Piirainen
207–228
14. Critical observations on the culture-boundness of phraseology
Annette Sabban
229–241
15. Phraseology in a European framework: A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research project on widespread idioms
Elisabeth Piirainen
243–258
16. Free and bound prepositions in a contrastive perspective. The case of with and avec
Christelle Cosme and Gaëtanelle Gilquin
259–274
17. Contrastive idiom analysis: The case of Japanese and English idioms of anger
Priscilla Ishida
275–291
18. Automatic extraction of translation equivalents of phrasal and light verbs in English and Russian
Olga Mudraya, Scott S.L. Piao, Paul Rayson, Serge Sharoff, Bogdan Babych and Laura Löfberg
293–309
Part IV. Phraseology in lexicography and natural language processing
311
19. Dictionaries and collocation
Rosamund Moon
313–336
20. Computational phraseology: An overview
Ulrich Heid
337–360
21. A computational lexicography approach to phraseologisms
Cornelia Tschichold
361–376
22. Extracting specialized collocations using lexical functions
Brigitte Orliac
377–390
23. Combined statistical and grammatical criteria for the retrieval of phraseological units in an electronic corpus
José-Manuel Pazos Bretaña and Antonio Pamies Bertrán
391–406
Envoi
407–410
The phrase, the whole phrase and nothing but the phrase
John McH. Sinclair
407–410
Author index
411–415
Subject index
417–422


A convincing case is made in this book for more information on both the internal (co-textual) and external (contextual) situations in which words occur in various combinations as well as for more criteria that are required in their identification, interpretation, classification and codification.
Reinhart Hartmann, University of Exeter, in International Journal of Lexicography, 2008

Phraseology – An interdisciplinary perspective is a finely-edited volume, which will provide its readers with a lot of food for thought if they wish to know more about an area of language description which was long neglected and is now undergoing a vivid and welcome revival.
Thierry Fontenelle, Microsoft Natural Language Group, in the International Journal of Translation, Vol. 21:1-2, Jan-Dec 2009, pp.189-193.