Phraseology and the Advanced Language Learner

Explores the process of word selection in second language use and the factors which determine the writer's choice of words.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. From a unit of meaning to a meaning-shift unit; 3. L2 use and processing of multi-word units; 4. Triangulating usage, exposure and processing; 5. Meaning-shift units in L2 learning and use: Usage vs. exposure; 6. Meaning-shift units in L2 processing: Usage vs. word association responses; 7. Toward the bigger picture.

About the author

Svetlana Vetchinnikova is University Lecturer in the Department of Languages, University of Helsinki. Her current interests include chunking at different levels of language organisation, individual variation and modelling language as a complex system. She is co-editor of Changing English: Global and Local Perspectives (2017) and, with Anna Mauranen, of Language Change (Cambridge, forthcoming).

Product details

• Authors: Svetlana Vetchinnikova, Svetlana (University of Helsinki) Vetchinnikova, Vetchinnikova Svetlana
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108499804
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49980-4
• No. of pages: 440
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Grammar & vocabulary, Language acquisition, Language learning: grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Literacy (Theories of reading and writing)