Fixed Expressions and Idioms in English: A Corpus-Based Approach
This is a text-based study of fixed expressions, or idioms. Moon's central argument is that fixed expressions can only be fully understood if they are considered in the context of the texts in which they occur. She examines several thousand fixed expressions and how they are being used in current English. She argues that examination of the corpus raises questions about many received ideas on fixed expressions and idioms, and suggests that new, use-centered, models are required.
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This is a text-based study of fixed expressions, or idioms. Moon's central argument is that fixed expressions can only be fully understood if they are considered in the context of the texts in which they occur. She examines several thousand fixed expressions and how they are being used in current English. She argues that examination of the corpus raises questions about many received ideas on fixed expressions and idioms, and suggests that new, use-centered, models are required.
CopyrightsConventions1Introduction and Background12Collocation and Chunking263Corpus and Computer444Frequencies and FEIs575Lexical and Grammatical Form756Variation1207Ambiguity, Polysemy, and Metaphor1788Discoursal Functions of FEIs2159Evaluation and Interactional Perspectives24410Cohesion and FEIs27811Afterword309References312Index333
