Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. About the authors vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Like I said again and again and over and over 7
6. Phrases in literary contexts 35
7. On “true” portraits of Letters to Shareholders – and the importance of phraseological analysis 57
8. The development of formulaic sequences in first and second language writing 83
9. Lexical frames in academic prose and conversation 109
10. 50-something years of work on collocations 135
11. Index 165