The study of narrative frequently draws on structuralist ideas that story structures are formulaic and comparable from culture to culture. There is a theory that these basic narrative structures are recognisable across cultures and similarly across generations. It should follow, therefore, that while children in the 21 Century classroom need knowledge and understanding of the classic examples o...

Specialised or LSP translation is often compared unfavourably with literary translation in terms of the creative input required from the translator to produce a „good‟ translation. The supposed formulaic nature of LSP texts is contrasted with the creative nature of literary texts. The authors of LSP texts are often anonymous, possibly working in a team, and not necessarily native speakers of th...

Abstract This pilot study investigates the formulaic phraseology most frequently used in highly political documents by examining a self-built bilingual parallel corpus of 43 speeches delivered United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meetings Chinese representatives. The also probes corpus-based approaches to explore and demonstrates method retrieve from UNSC corpus. Formulaic is often seen disco...

The concept of ‘snowclones’ has gained interest in recent research on linguistic creativity and studies extravagance expressiveness language. However, no clear criteria for identifying snowclones have yet been established, detailed corpus-based investigations the phenomenon are still lacking. This paper addresses this gap a twofold way. On one hand, we develop an operational definition snowclon...