Overview
- Presents a usage-based constructionist approach in describing and analyzing semi-fixed idiomatic expressions
- Investigates the linguistic as well as non-linguistic factors in the acquisition of constructional idioms
- Offers original instruments to measure cognitive knowledge on idiomatic productivity and idiom use
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This book offers an insightful description of the productive behavior of four-character schematic idiomatic expressions (SIEs) in Mandarin and explores from a usage-based perspective the issue of how young learners acquire the partial productivity of these expressions. The beginning chapters contribute to a constructional understanding of the quadri-syllabic SIEs and an in-depth distributional analysis of three typical schematic patterns based on natural corpus data. The following chapters present detailed reports on four experimental studies to account for the factors that play significant roles in the learning process of SIEs from adolescence to adulthood. In the final chapter, the author concludes that acquisition of SIEs is as an interactive process shaped by input frequency, structural complexity, internal semantic relation, and chunking effect of open morphemes at different age levels.
These findings enrich current understandings on constructional idioms and the emergentist model in idiom learning with a cross-linguistic focus on Mandarin unique quadri-syllabic SIEs. Language teachers, researchers, and postgraduate students who are interested in studies of idiomaticity. Construction grammar and usage-based learning model will find this book sufficiently informative and intriguing.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quadri-syllabic Schematic Idioms in Chinese: Description and Acquisition
Authors: Liu Li
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7202-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7201-0Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-7204-1Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-7202-7Published: 01 January 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 227
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 69 illustrations in colour
Topics: Linguistics, general, Language Acquisition and Development, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics