Jayeeta Banerjee
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jayeeta Banerjee is involved.
Articles
2008 The phenomenon of lexical repulsion in text 25th Lexis and Grammar Conference, Mirto, Ignazio Mauro (ed.), pp. 213–225 | Article
The advances in computing technology which made possible the study of electronic text in large quantities opened the door to the study of lexis, and crucially of significant word collocation. The type and strength of preference or ‘attraction’ which obtains between two or more words has been the… read more
2007 Lexical repulsion between sense-related pairs International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12:3, pp. 415–444 | Article
This paper builds on the groundwork and setting up of methods for an innovative approach to analysing text. We have proposed that there is a hitherto unexplored textual feature, which we call ‘repulsion’, which operates on the construction of meaning in an opposing way to that of word collocation.… read more