Idiomaticity in the Basic Writing of American English

Idiomaticity in the Basic Writing of American English
Author: Marion Okawa Sonomura
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Going beyond mere grammaticality, the author examines the basic writing skills of a group of community college students in Hawaii for errors in idiomaticity, or native-like appropriateness of expression. («The Way of My Life», for example, though grammatical, is unidiomatic compared to «My Way of Life»). Criteria are suggested for the classification of phrasematic expressions, and a convenient terminology comprising idioms, collocations, and formulas is developed. Increased attention to idiomaticity is required, not only in language description, but also in the academic writing of second language and creole speakers.

Idiomaticity in the Basic Writing of American English

Idiomaticity in the Basic Writing of American English
Author: Marion Okawa Sonomura
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 178
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Going beyond mere grammaticality, the author examines the basic writing skills of a group of community college students in Hawaii for errors in idiomaticity, or native-like appropriateness of expression. («The Way of My Life», for example, though grammatical, is unidiomatic compared to «My Way of Life»). Criteria are suggested for the classification of phrasematic expressions, and a convenient terminology comprising idioms, collocations, and formulas is developed. Increased attention to idiomaticity is required, not only in language description, but also in the academic writing of second language and creole speakers.

Rethinking Idiomaticity

Rethinking Idiomaticity
Author: Stefanie Wulff
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2010-09-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441116443

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Idioms and Idiomaticity

Idioms and Idiomaticity
Author: Chitra Fernando
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1996
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN:

The series will provide much-needed descriptions of modern English which take the revelations of recent research into account. This book provides a comprehensive treatment of idioms and idiomaticity from a functional perspective. It examines the use of idioms in discourse to combine the novel and the conventional, to convey representations of the world, evaluate people and situations, signal conviviality or conflict, andcreate coherent, cohesive texts. The book goes on to consider implications for language learning and development.

Learning Idiomaticity

Learning Idiomaticity
Author: Maria Wiktorsson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

"The mastery of idiomaticity appears to be one of the more difficult tasks in the learning of a foreign language. In fact, even advanced learners quite often fail to reach a native-like level of idiomaticity. Consequently, native speakers often perceive th"

Handbook of Second and Foreign Language Writing

Handbook of Second and Foreign Language Writing
Author: Rosa M. Manchón
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 670
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1614511330

The Handbook of Second and Foreign Language Writing is an authoritative reference compendium of the theory and research on second and foreign language writing that can be of value to researchers, professionals, and graduate students. It is intended both as a retrospective critical reflection that can situate research on L2 writing in its historical context and provide a state of the art view of past achievements, and as a prospective critical analysis of what lies ahead in terms of theory, research, and applications. Accordingly, the Handbook aims to provide (i) foundational information on the emergence and subsequent evolution of the field, (ii) state-of-the-art surveys of available theoretical and research (basic and applied) insights, (iii) overviews of research methods in L2 writing research, (iv) critical reflections on future developments, and (iv) explorations of existing and emerging disciplinary interfaces with other fields of inquiry.

Idiotic English and Idiomatic English

Idiotic English and Idiomatic English
Author: Joseph Cherian
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-10-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 151276034X

The purpose of this book is to inspire you to use English in a way that will influence the minds and hearts of the people you communicate with and open doors of opportunity for you not only in your local region but around the globe. It is the fruit of the authors forty years of experience in teaching students and professionals to write and speak effectively in Englishbrought to you in one handy volume. This is a book that will radically transform the way you write, speak, and even think, in the English language; encourage you to break every idiotic rule passed down by tradition and to make a few bold ones of your own; and serve as your crucial stepping stone to using English intelligently, confidently, and influentially in the highest business, professional, and social circles in the international sphere.

Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics

Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics
Author: Dylan Glynn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2010
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3110226413

Review text: "Overall, this volume is an important contribution to the development of empirical Cognitive Semantics. This collection of high-quality papers provides the reader with an insight into the most important empirical approaches in corpus-driven semantic research."Natalia Levshina in: Linguist List 20.3011.