Diana Sidtis: Foundations of Familiar Language. Formulaic Expressions, Lexical Bundles, and Collocations at Work and Play. Wiley Blackwell, New York 2022, ss. 450.

The study of fixed expressions, i.e. polylexical units familiar to users of a given language opposed to novel word combinations, has been developed intensively over the recent decades, with many analyses offering new insights into reproducibility 1 .The language items in questions have been investigated from various perspectives, including, inter alia, the linguocultural approach, phraseostylistic research, lexicographic studies or the psycholinguistic framework (Granger, Meunier 2008; Skandera 2007; Albano, Miller 2020) 2 .What should be emphasised is the fact that the broadly understood word phraseology serves as an umbrella term used for describing a plethora of institutionalised multiword combinations 3 .These polylexical items differ in their nature: idioms, conversational phrases and proverbs tend to be figurative, while most collocations carry literal meanings.The common denominator is their familiarity to language users who store them in their mental lexicon.