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Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-Based Approach

Published 1 January 1998
Rosamund Moon
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TL;DR

This book discusses Corpus and Computer, Frequencies and FEIs, and Evaluation and Interactional Perspectives, which focused on the evaluation and interactional aspects of FEIs.

Abstract

1. Introduction and Background 2. Collocation and Chunking 3. Corpus and Computer 4. Frequencies and FEIs 5. Lexical and Grammatical Form 6. Variation 7. Ambiguity, Polysemy, and Metaphor 8. Discoursal Functions of FEIs 9. Evaluation and Interactional Perspectives 10. Cohesion and FEIs 11. Afterword

Keywords

PsychologyArts and Humanities