Frontmatter -- Contents -- Developments in the study of formulaic language -- since 1970: A personal view -- Reasonably well: Natural Semantic Metalanguage as a -- tool for the study of phraseology and its cultural underpinnings -- Australian perceptions of the weekend: Evidence -- from collocations and elsewhere -- Enjoy!: The (phraseological) culture of having -- fun -- Hot, heiß, and gorjachij: A case study of -- collocations in English, German, and Russian -- Collections of proverbs and proverb dictionaries: -- Some historical observations on what s in them and what s not (with a -- note on current genderedŽ proverbs) -- Yankee wisdom: American proverbs and the worldview -- of New England -- Similes and other evaluative idioms in Australian -- English -- Definitely maybe: Modality clusters and politeness -- in spoken discourse -- Lexical developments in greenspeaking -- The phraseology of tourism: A central lexical field -- and its cultural construction -- Idiomaticity in a cultural and activity type -- perspective: The conventionalization of routine phrases in -- answering-machine messages -- Greetings as an act of identity in Tristan da Cunha -- English: From individual to social significance? -- Multiword units in Aboriginal English: Australian -- cultural expression in an adopted language -- Fixed expressions as manifestations of cultural -- conceptualizations: Examples from African varieties of English -- Varieties of English around the world: -- Collocational and cultural profiles -- Formulaic language in cultural perspective -- Backmatter