Understanding Formulaic Language

<p><em>Understanding Formulaic Language: A Second Language Acquisition Perspective</em> brings together leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary account of the acquisition processing and use of formulaic language. Contributors present three distinct but complementary perspectives on the study of formulaic language – cognitive/psycholinguistic socio-cultural/pragmatic and pedagogical – to highlight new work as well as directions for future work.<i> </i>This book is an essential resource for established researchers and graduate students in second language acquisition and pedagogy corpus and cognitive linguistics psycholinguistics sociolinguistics and pragmatics.</p>