A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF IDIOMS IN ACADEMIC SPEECH

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Formulaic Language in Native and Second Language Speakers: Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and TESOL (2008, background): “…Conrad, & Cortes, 2004), collocations and formulaic sequences such as research project, as a result of, to what extent, in other words (Schmitt, 2004; Simpson-Vlach & Ellis, in press), and idioms such as come into play, bottom line, rule of thumb, ball-park estimate (Simpson & Mendis, 2003).”
An Academic Formulas List: New Methods in Phraseology Research (2010, background): “Many formulaic constructions are non-compositional or idiomatic, like ‘once upon a time’, or ‘on the other hand’, with little scope for substitution (‘twice upon a time’, ‘on the other foot’) (Simpson and Mendis 2003).”
Lexical bundles in university spoken and written registers (2007, background): “One especially productive approach to the study of spoken academic discourse has been the description of longer lexical phrases, chunks, and idioms (see, e.g., DeCarrico & Nattinger, 1988; Khuwaileh, 1999; Nattinger & DeCarrico, 1992; Schmitt, 2004; Simpson, 2004; Simpson & Mendis, 2003).”