Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Phraseology: The periphery and the heart of language 1
6. Introduction 15
7. Section I. Extracting and describing phraseological units
8. Phraseology and language pedagogy: Semantic preference associated with English verbs in the British National Corpus 21
9. Essential collocations for learners of English: The role of collocational direction and weight 43
10. Phraseology effects as a trigger for errors in L2 English: The case of more advanced learners 67
11. Contrasting English-Spanish interpersonal discourse phrases: A corpus study 85
12. Exemplification in learner writing: A cross-linguistic perspective 101
13. Section II. Learning phraseological units
14. Why can't you just leave it alone? Deviations from memorized language as a gauge of nativelike competence 123
15. Phraseology and English for academic purposes: Challenges and opportunities 149
16. Multiword expressions and the digital turn 163
17. Section III. Recording and exploiting phraseological units
18. Phraseology in learners' dictionaries: What, where and how? 185
19. Compilation, formalisation and presentation of bilingual phraseology: Problems and possible solutions 203
20. The phraseological patterns of high-frequency verbs in advanced English for general purposes: A corpus-driven approach to EFL textbook analysis 223
21. Section IV. Concluding remarks
22. Phraseology in language learning and teaching: Where to from here? 247
23. Author index 253
24. Subject index 257