Von der Routineformel zur Konstruktion – Präformierte Konstruktionseinheiten als polyfaktorielles Phänomen.

From routine formulae to constructions – Prefabricated turn-construction units as a polyfactorial phenomenon

Günter Schmale (1)

1 CEL - Centre d'Études Linguistiques - Corpus, Discours et Sociétés

Starting out from an inventory of old and new tendancies in research on formulaic language the present text reflects on basic defining criteria of formulaicity: polylexicality, frozenness and idiomaticity. Advocating a systematic ‘corpus-driven approach’, the author pleads for a replacement of the criterion of polylexicality by polyfactoriality, the criterion of frozenness or stability by a common formulaic denominator, the criterion of idiomaticity by idiomatic and pragmatic imprint. Presenting four sequences from talkshows the text also develops basic functions of prefabricated language use. Referring to ‘constructions’, its author finally argues in favour of lexicogrammatical phrases replacing theoretical context-free grammatical rules.

Mots clés: formulaic language; defining criteria; polyfactoriality; corpus-driven approach; constructions; routine formulae

Domaines: Linguistique

Günter Schmale. Von der Routineformel zur Konstruktion – Präformierte Konstruktionseinheiten als polyfaktorielles Phänomen.. Berdychowska, Zofia /Lüger, Heinz-Helmut/Schatte, Czeslawa/ Zenderowska-Korpus, Grazyna (Hrsg.). Phraseologie als Schnittstelle von Sprache und Kultur I : Abgrenzungen - Sprach- und textvergleichende Zugänge, 18, Peter Lang, pp.41-59, 2017, Studien zur Text- und Diskursforschung, 978-3-631-66754-5. ⟨hal-01629091⟩