Corpus Analysis of Phraseology

Buerki, Andreas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2151-3246 2025. Corpus Analysis of Phraseology. Chapelle, Carol A., ed. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2nd ed), Wiley,

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Abstract

Phraseology designates both the study of usual turns of phrase in language and also the turns of phrase themselves (i.e. phraseological expressions). Traditionally, phraseology focussed on highly idiomatic, non-compositional expressions like idioms (e.g. pull someone’s leg), but in recent decades and under the influence of the availability of corpora and increasingly sophisticated tools to interrogate them, the phraseological domain has expanded vastly; less clearly idiomatic expressions like collocations (e.g. brush one’s teeth) and other usual sequences (e.g. in other words, to be honest), formulae (e.g. Good morning) and similar patterns are now considered part of phraseology. The corpus linguistic analysis of phraseological expressions has proven exceptionally fruitful in discovering expressions, understanding their prevalence, the range of permissible variation and links between phraseology and linguistic proficiency and genre among other aspects. Conversely, a phraseological corpus analysis can make important contributions to the understanding of text, discourse and practically any area of language and life.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	In Press
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Publisher:	Wiley
ISBN:	9781119863892
Last Modified:	03 Feb 2025 11:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/174947

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