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Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Developments in the study of formulaic language since 1970: A personal view ANDREW PAWLEY -- Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a tool for the study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings ANNA WIERZBICKA -- Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence from collocations and elsewhere BERT PEELERS -- Enjoy I: The (phraseological) culture of having fun MONIKA BEDNAREK and WOLFRAM BUBLITZ -- Hot, hei� and gorjachij: A case study of collocations in English, German, and Russian DORIS SCH�EFELD -- Collections of proverbs and proverb dictionaries: Some historical observations on what's in them and what's not (with a note on current "gendered" proverbs) CHARLES CLAY DOYLE -- Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview of New England WOLFGANG MIEDER -- Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian English PAM PETERS -- Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness in spoken discourse SVENJA ADOLPHS -- Lexical developments in greenspeaking MELINA MAGDALENA and PETER M�LH�SLER -- The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field and its cultural construction ANDREA GERBIG and ANGELA SHEK -- Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type perspective: The conven-tionalization of routine phrases in answering-machine messages KARIN AIJMER -- Greetings as an act of identity in Tristan da Cunha English: From individual to social significance? DANIEL SCHREIER -- Multiword units in Aboriginal English: Australian cutural expression in an adopted language -- IAN G. MALCOLM and FARZAD SHARIFIAN -- Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English HANS-GEORG WOLF and FRANK POLZENHAGEN -- Varieties of English around the world: Collocational and cultural profiles CHRISTIAN MAIR -- Formulaic language in cultural perspective PENNY LEE. ISBN 9783110190878