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Phraseology in learners' dictionaries: What, where and how?

Abstract

This chapter raises the question as to whether learners’ dictionaries adequately represent routine formulae in terms of coverage and generativity. Most monolingual learners’ dictionaries are found to concentrate rather too narrowly on traditional non-compositional idioms, while severely neglecting routine formulae which are semantically fully transparent (cf. Siepmann 2005b), thereby failing to conform to semantically-oriented definitions of collocation (e.g. Hausmann 2003; Mel’cuk 2003).

Abstract

This chapter raises the question as to whether learners’ dictionaries adequately represent routine formulae in terms of coverage and generativity. Most monolingual learners’ dictionaries are found to concentrate rather too narrowly on traditional non-compositional idioms, while severely neglecting routine formulae which are semantically fully transparent (cf. Siepmann 2005b), thereby failing to conform to semantically-oriented definitions of collocation (e.g. Hausmann 2003; Mel’cuk 2003).

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
Phraseology in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
This chapter is in the book Phraseology in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.138.15sie

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
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