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...

Pragmatic formulas have been recognized as linguistic building blocks necessary for successful speech act performance. Current approaches to teaching overlook pragmatic formulas, promoting an incomplete view of pragmatics instruction. This paper reports on the results a classroom-based study in which formula-enhanced treatment focusing both pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic components ability...

the growing attention to formulaic sequences during the last decade indicates that the functional features of such sequences play a crucial role in writing. formulaic sequences are prefabricated linguistic components which are stored and retrieved as a whole. the present study aims to examine the functional features of such sequences in persian writings. to do so, 10 writing samples of persian ...