Skandera Paul (ed.) Phraseology and Culture in English

Mouton de Gruyter. 2007. 511 p. ISBN: 3110190877Developments in the study of formulaic language since 1970:
A personal view.
Andrew Pawley.
Focus on particular lexemes.
Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for the.
study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings.
Anna Wierzbicka.
Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence from collocations.
and elsewhere.
Bert Peeters.
Enjoy! : The (phraseological) culture of having fun.
Monika Bednarek and Wolfram Bublitz.
Hot, heiß, and gorjachij: A case study of collocations in English,
German, and Russian.
Doris Schönefeld.
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.
Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview of.
New England.
Wolfgang Mieder.
Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian English.
Pam Peters.
Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness in spoken discourse.
Svenja Adolphs.
Focus on use-related varieties: Registers.
Lexical developments in greenspeaking.
Melina Magdalena and Peter Mühlhäusler.
The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field and its cultural.
construction.
Andrea Gerbig and Angela Shek 303.
Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type perspective: The conventionalization.
of routine phrases in answering-machine messages.
Karin Aijmer.
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.
Multiword units in Aboriginal English:
Australian cutural expression in an adopted language.
Ian G. Malcolm and Farzad Sharifian.
Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural conceptualizations:
Examples from African varieties of English.
Hans-Georg Wolf and Frank Polzenhagen.
Varieties of English around the world: Collocational and cultural.
profiles.
Christian Mair.
Epilogue.
Formulaic language in cultural perspective.
Penny Lee.