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Formulaic language: Pushing the boundaries

d) Inclusion of pre-2008 material: Chapters 9-14 (57 pages, 17,000 words, 19% of book) summarise previously published empirical studies. Ch9: Japan Journal for Multilingualism and Multiculturalism 9(1): 24-51 (2003) (RAE return); Ch10: Language and Communication 25: 59-75 (2004); Ch11: Language Awareness 11(2): 114-31; Ch12: Schmitt (ed) (2004) Formulaic sequences, Benjamins, 249-68; Ch13: Canadian Modern Language Review 63(1): 35-57 and Meunier and Granger (eds) (2008) Phraseology in Language learning and teaching, Benjamins, 123-48; Ch14: International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law 12(1): 1-18. Excluding quotations and some figures, the remainder, 97,000 words, 81% of the book, is new material.

The scope of argument presented in the book (114,000 words) reflects a lengthy period of empirical research and conceptual reflection and elaboration. Data gathered since the beginning of the century (see section d) were supplemented during the period by extensive reading on theories of grammar, principles of computational linguistics, and oral traditions, plus further original research and reanalysis of data. The book culminates in a discussion of five new questions, drawing cross-sectionally on the implications of the assembled evidence to extend the conceptual framework for formulaic language. The book took over two years to write.