0 containing or consisting of fixed and repeated groups of words or ideas:
There is a variety of style and type of approach so that the composing process does not become formulaic.
In telling fantasy stories, children draw on resources (such as formulaic openings and closings) acquired through experience with other narrative texts.
However, they also show that formulaic use may appear at the same time or even after wider use.
Otherwise, there is a huge remainder class that is, so to speak, minimally formulaic.
As with negated objects, this lexical variety argues against treating the phenomena purely in terms of formulaic language.
This latter question is likely to have a close connection to the understanding of the relationship between fluency and formulaic language use.
Furthermore, whereas her formulaic utterances were largely fluent, nearly half of her productive combinations involved maze behaviours.
All such commentators divided the ' gentle ' from the ' commons ' according to formulaic social categories derived from legal and feudal distinctions.
