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Contents Preface Paul Skandera ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿.. Prologue Developments in the study of formulaic language since 1970: A personal view Andrew Pawley ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿. 1 Focus on particular lexemes Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for the study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings Anna Wierzbicka ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿..¿¿¿¿¿ 44 Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence from collocations and elsewhere Bert Peeters ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿..¿¿¿¿¿ 74 Enjoy!: The (phraseological) culture of having fun Monika Bednarek and Wolfram Bublitz ¿...¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 103 Hot, heiss, and gorjachij: A case study of collocations in English, German, and Russian Doris Schönefeld ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿..¿¿¿¿¿¿ 130 vi Contents Focus on types of idioms Collections of proverbs and proverb dictionaries: Some historical observarions on what¿s in them and what¿s not (with a note on current ¿genered¿ proverbs) Charles Clay Doyle¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿..¿¿¿¿¿ 172 Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview of New England Wolfgang Mieder ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿.¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 195 Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian English Pam Peters ¿¿..¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 226 Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness in spoken discourse Svenja Adolphs ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 248 Focus on use-related varieties: Registers Lexical developments in greenspeaking Melina Magdalena and Peter Mühlhäusler ¿¿¿.¿¿¿¿ 264 The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field and its cultural construction Andrea Gerbig and Angela Shek ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿.¿¿¿¿ 292 Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type perspective: The conventionalization of routine phrases in answering-machine messages Karin Aijmer ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 312 Focus on user-related varieties: Dialects and ethnolects Greeting as an act of identity in Tristan da Cunha English: From individual to social significance? Daniel Schreier ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ 339 Contents vii Multiword units in Aboriginal English: Australian cutural expression in an adopted language Ian G. Malcolm and Farzad Sharifian¿¿¿¿¿¿.¿¿¿¿ 361 Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English Hans-Georg Wolf and Frank Polzenhagen ¿¿¿..¿¿¿¿ 385 Varieties of English around the world: Collocational and cultural profiles Christian Mair ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿.¿¿¿¿¿¿ 422 Epilogue Phraseology and culture in English: Drawing the threads together Penny Lee ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿.¿¿¿¿¿¿ 455
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
English language -- Social aspects -- English-speaking countries.
Language and culture -- English-speaking countries.
English language -- Variation.
Linguistic geography.
Group identity -- English-speaking countries.
English-speaking countries -- Civilization.