Fixedness in Caricati and Mariotti’s Nuovo vocabolario commerciale fraseologico

The article first addresses the concept of specialist language or Microlingua. Attention then focuses on the analysis of Caricati and Mariotti’s Nuovo vocabolario commerciale fraseologico italiano-francese ad uso degli studenti delle scuole commerciali, dei commercianti, corrispondenti, professionisti, and considers the treatment of fixedness in the preface, the macrostructure, and, finally, the microstructure.