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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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.
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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.
Inhalt
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xii
1 Introduction 1
Incidence of Familiar Language Exemplars 12
Where Do Fixed, Familiar Expressions Come From? 16
2 Classification 26
Identification 36
Three Classes of Familiar Expressions: Formulaic Expressions, Lexical Bundles, Collocations 37
Formulaic Expressions 40
Lexical Bundles 80
Collocations 86
Overview of Characteristics and Functions of Familiar Language 104
How Formulaic Expressions, Lexical Bundles, and Collocations Differ 114
3 How Is Familiar Language Acquired? 117
Frequency of Exposure: History and Veridicality 118
Acquisition: Role of Emotion and Familiarity 123
Acquisition: Memory for Speech and Language 127
4 Acquisition 131
Several Conditions Converge to Promote Acquisition 132
Acquisition of Fixed, Familiar Expressions in the First Language 136
Acquisition of Fixed, Familiar Expressions in the Second Language 143
Familiar Language Representation Compared in First and Second Language 150
5 Prosodic and Phonetic Characteristics of Fixed, Familiar Expressions 155
Stereotyped Prosodic Form in Fixed Expressions 157
Detailed Knowledge of Prosodic Features 160
Acoustic Studies 163
6 Familiar Language in Psychiatric and Neurologic Disorders 169
Psychiatric Disorders 170
The Neurology of Familiar Language 181
Stroke: Residual Speech and Familiar Phrases 187
Familiar Phrases in Speech Therapy 203
Specialized Functions of the Cerebral Hemispheres 217
The Right Hemisphere and Familiar Language 222
CorticalSubcortical Dimension 224
Functional Imaging Studies of Fixed Expressions 241
7 Summing Up: Dual- or Multiprocess Model of Language Function? 251
The Linguistic View 251
The Psychological Perspective 253
Observations from Cerebral Processing 255
Familiar Language Its Daunting Heterogeneity 258
Appendix I: Listing Accumulated by C. Fillmore, 1973 (2050 items) 263
Appendix II: Russell Baker: New York Times, the 1978 Commandments 287
Appendix III: Selected Familiar Expressions Listed in Chiardi, 1987 289
Appendix IV: Familiar Expressions Contributed by Students as Heard in Daily Communicative Interactions 291
Appendix Va: Form…