TY - BOOK AU - Wray,Alison TI - Formulaic language: pushing the boundaries T2 - Oxford applied linguistics SN - 9780194422451 U1 - 813.028 PY - 2008/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Psycholinguistics KW - Language acquisition KW - Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) N1 - Examines how formulaic language (lexical chunks) is used in a variety of real-life situations. Presents a framework for examining the existence and function of formulaic language and tests it extensively against language data within a wide variety of language samples. Formulaic language is a fast-growing area of applied linguistic research, and the author is a key figure in this field; Includes bibliographical references (p.[287]-302) and index ER -