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1 Introduction 1.1 The Research Tradition of Prefabricated Language 1.2 The Scope of This Dissertation: Collocation Defined 1.3 The Purposes of This Dissertation 1.4 Data Collecting: The Travel Advertising Corpus 1.5 Methodological Issues 1.6 The Organization of This Dissertation2 A Review of Related Literature on Collocation: Firthianism and Beyond 2.1 Introduction 2.2 J. R. Firth: ‘You Shall Know a Word by the Company it Keeps’ 2.3 M. A. K. Halliday: Lexis as a Linguistic Level 2.4 T. F. Mitchell: Linguistic Goings-on 2.5 J. Sinclair: Corpus Linguistic Approach to Collocation 2.6 Summary3 Theoretical Framework: Collocation in Systemic Functional Perspectives 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Modeling Lexis in Systemic Grammar 3.3 Collocations in Functional Grammar 3.4 Collocation and Register 3.5 Summary4 Ideational Collocations: Conventional Ways of Representing the World 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Representing the World: Grammar, Single Word and Collocation 4.3 The Experiential Grammar of Ideational Collocations 4.4 Conventionalization in Travel Advertising 4.5 Ideational Collocations and Attitude in Discourse 4.6 Summary5 Interpersonal Collocations: Dialogue, Conviviality and Narrative Voices 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Interpersonal Collocations: An Overview 5.3 The Dialogic Nature of Travel Advertising 5.4 Interpersonal Collocations as Markers of Conviviality 5.5 Narrative Voices: Language Reporting in Travel Advertising 5.6 Summary6 Textual Collocations: Logical and Temporal Cohesion 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Cohesion in Discourse: General Issues 6.3 Idiomatic Collocations: the Logic of Travel Advertising 6.4 Temporal Collocations: The Chronology of Travel Stories 6.5 Texualization: Another Hypothesis 6.6 Summary 7 Collocational Metaphors: Between Creativity and Prefabrication 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Problems with Referential Interpretations of Metaphor 7.3 A Syntagmatic Perspective on Metaphor 7.4 The Syntax of Collocational Metaphors 7.5 Metaphorical Functions in Travel Advertising 7.6 Between Creativity and Prefabrication: A Discussion 7.7 Summary 8 Conclusions and Implications 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Answers to the Three Research Questions 8.3 Reflections on Modern Linguistic Theory 8.4 Teaching Collocation: Where Grammar and Lexis Meet < 8.5 Postscript References Appendix1 Appendix2