Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview of New England

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Developments in the study of formulaic language since 1970: A personal view 3
4. Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for the study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings 49
5. Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence from collocations and elsewhere 79
6. Enjoy!: The (phraseological) culture of having fun 109
7. Hot, heiß, and gorjachij: A case study of collocations in English, German, and Russian 137
8. Collections of proverbs and proverb dictionaries: Some historical observations on what s in them and what s not (with a note on current genderedŽ proverbs) 181
9. Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview of New England 205
10. Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian English 235
11. Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness in spoken discourse 257
12. Lexical developments in greenspeaking 275
13. The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field and its cultural construction 303
14. Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type perspective: The conventionalization of routine phrases in answering-machine messages 323
15. Greetings as an act of identity in Tristan da Cunha English: From individual to social significance? 353
16. Multiword units in Aboriginal English: Australian cultural expression in an adopted language 375
17. Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English 399
18. Varieties of English around the world: Collocational and cultural profiles 437
19. Formulaic language in cultural perspective 471
20. Backmatter 497