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Preface Paul Skandera v
Prologue
Developments in the study of formulaic language since 1970: A personal view Andrew Pawley 3
Focus on particular lexemes
Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for the study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings Anna Wierzbicka 49
Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence from collocations and elsewhere Bert Peeters 79
Enjoy!: The (phraseological) culture of having fun Monika Bednarek Wolfram Bublitz 109
Hot, heib, and gorjachij: A case study of collocations in English, German, and Russian Doris Schonefeld 137
Focus on types of idioms
Collections of proverbs and proverb dictionaries: Some historical observations on what's in them and what's not (with a note on current "gendered" proverbs) Charles Clay Doyle 181
Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview of New England Wolfgang Mieder 205
Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian English Pam Peters 235
Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness in spoken discourse Svenja Adolphs 257
Focus on use-related varieties: Registers
Lexical developments in greenspeaking Melina Magdalena Peter Muhlhausler 275
The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field and its cultural construction Andrea Gerbig Angela Shek 303
Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type perspective: The conventionalization of routine phrases in answering-machine messages Karin Aijmer 323
Focus on user-related varieties: Dialects and ethnolects
Greetings as an act of identity in Tristan da Cunha English: From individual to social significance? Daniel Schreier 353
Multiword units in Aboriginal English: Australian cutural expression in an adopted language Ian G. Malcolm Farzad Sharifian 375
Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English Hans-Georg Wolf Frank Polzenhagen 399
Varieties of English around the world: Collocational and cultural profiles Christian Mair 437
Epilogue
Formulaic language in cultural perspective Penny Lee 471
Index 497
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