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| According to "The Canadian Modern Language Review", '''''formulaic sequences''''' are "fixed combinations of ]s that...can facilitate ] in speech by making pauses shorter and less frequent, and allowing longer runs of speech between pauses".<ref>http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/canadian_modern_language_review/v063/63.1wood.html</ref> | According to "The Canadian Modern Language Review", '''''formulaic sequences''''' are "fixed combinations of ]s that...can facilitate ] in speech by making pauses shorter and less frequent, and allowing longer runs of speech between pauses".<ref>http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/canadian_modern_language_review/v063/63.1wood.html</ref> | ||
| A formulaic sequence is "a sequence, continuous or discontinuous, of words or other elements, which is, or appears to be, prefabricated: that is, stored and retrieved whole from memory at the time of use, rather than being subject to generation or analysis by the language grammar".<ref>{{cite book|last=Wray|first=Alison|title=Formulaic Language and the Lexicon|year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=0521022126|page=9}}</ref> | |||
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According to "The Canadian Modern Language Review", formulaic sequences are "fixed combinations of words that...can facilitate fluency in speech by making pauses shorter and less frequent, and allowing longer runs of speech between pauses".
A formulaic sequence is "a sequence, continuous or discontinuous, of words or other elements, which is, or appears to be, prefabricated: that is, stored and retrieved whole from memory at the time of use, rather than being subject to generation or analysis by the language grammar".
References
- http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/canadian_modern_language_review/v063/63.1wood.html
- Wray, Alison (2002). Formulaic Language and the Lexicon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 9. ISBN 0521022126.