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Sinclair proposed the complementary ‘open-choice principle’ and ‘idiom principle’ for language use, meaning that in some cases speakers choose freely from individual single words and in other they pick pre-fabricated chunks of words in constructing their speech. In this course we will chart the types of such ‘chunks’, from clusters via collocations and colligations to idioms. Other aspects to be dealt with include:
- the functions of fixed expressions, both psycholinguistic and pragmatic,
- their semantics, from fully transparent to completely opague types,
- their link to culture: cross-linguistic, cross-variational and historical comparisons.
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