The book culminates in a new model of lexical storage, which accommodates the curiosities of non-native and aphasic speech. It gradually builds up a unified description and explanation of formulaic language as a linguistic solution to a larger, nonlinguistic, problem, the promotion of self. This book explores the nature and purposes of formulaic language and looks for patterns across the research findings from the fields of discourse analysis, first language acquisition, language pathology and applied linguistics. It is predictable in form and idiomatic, and seems to be stored in fixed, or semi-fixed, chunks. Formulaic Language and the Lexicon A considerable proportion of our everyday language is ‘formulaic’.
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