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Zenodo
2010
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17753244 |
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- <p><strong><a href="https://www.journaloflinguisticsandlanguageteaching.com/">Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching (JLLT)</a></strong></p> <p>Starting from the observation that the criteria generally applied to the definition of formulaic speech—polylexicality, (relative) stability, and idiomaticity—no longer reflect the current state-of-the-art insights into the nature of prefabricated speech production and comprehension, the present paper proposes a revised vision of formulaicity that takes the pivotal defining criterion of polyfactoriality as its basis. This notion makes it possible to take into account segmental, prosodic, corporal, contextual, and situational elements when defining an utterance, or one of its units, as formulaic, even when it consists of only a single lexical item. It also permits a considerable extension of the scope of formulaic communicative manifestations, ranging from monolexical routine formulae and sentence-based proverbs to formulaic texts and even communicative events. As a hyperonym, polyfactoriality is likewise characterized by relative stability through its smallest common formulaic denominator, by semantic non-compositionality (arising from its idiomatic footprint), and by its multimodal character. Based on these reflections, a revised definition of the notion of a formulaic sequence will be put forward.</p>