Includes the whole area of language phenomena called set phrases, proverbs and fixed expressions and formulaicity in everyday parlance. This handbook offers a critical view of research on the linguistic properties and uses of formulaicity in various types of discourse as well as in numerous languages.

"Phraseology" includes the whole area of language phenomena called set phrases, proverbs and fixed expressions and formulaicity in everyday parlance. The Handbook offers a critical view of research on the linguistic properties and uses of formulaicity in various types of discourse as well as in numerous languages, considering research results from the cultural sciences, language psychology, computational linguistics and corpus linguistics.