Formulaic Language

1. Preface; 2. Introduction. Approaches to the study of formulae (by Corrigan, Roberta); 3. Part I. Acquisition and loss; 4. Repetition and reuse in child language learning (by Bannard, Colin); 5. Formulaic language from a learner perspective: What the learner needs to know (by Erman, Britt); 6. The acquisition and development of the topic marker wa in L1 Japanese: The role of NP-wa? in child-mother interaction (by Kurumada, Chigusa); 7. Formulaic expressions in intermediate EFL writing assessment (by Ohlrogge, Aaron); 8. Connecting the dots to unpack the language (by Peters, Ann M.); 9. The effect of awareness-raising on the use of formulaic constructions (by Rott, Susanne); 10. Can L2 learners productively use Japanese tense-aspect markers? A usage-based approach (by Sugaya, Natsue); 11. Formulaic and novel language in a 'dual process' model of language competence: Evidence from surveys, speech samples, and schemata (by Van Lancker Sidtis, Diana); 12. Part II. Psychological reality; 13. The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody(2): Affective priming (by Ellis, Nick C.); 14. Frequency and the emergence of prefabs: Evidence from monitoring (by Kapatsinski, Vsevolod); 15. Part III. Functional explanations; 16. Formulaic argumentation in scientific discourse (by Dorgeloh, Heidrun); 17. Accepting responsibility at defendants' sentencing hearings: No formulas for success (by Gruber, M. Catherine); 18. Decorative symmetry in ritual (and everyday) language (by Haiman, John); 19. Time management formulaic expressions in English and Thai (by Iwasaki, Shoichi); 20. Routinized uses of the first person expression for me in conversational discourse (by Scheibman, Joanne); 21. Author Index; 22. Subject index