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Lexical Priming
Applications and advances
Published in 2005, Michael Hoey’s Lexical Priming – A new theory of words and language introduced a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. In the ten years that have passed, the theory has since gained traction in the field of corpus-linguistics. This volume brings together some of the most important contributions to the theory, in areas such as language teaching and learning, discourse analysis, stylistics as well as the design of language learning software. Crucially, this book introduces aspects of the language that have so far been given less focus in lexical priming, such as spoken language, figurative language, forced primings, priming as predictor of genre, and historical primings. The volume also focuses on applying the lexical priming theory to languages other than English including Mandarin Chinese and Finnish.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 79] 2017. xxiii, 309 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 27 July 2017
Published online on 27 July 2017
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements | pp. vii–7
- ForewordMichael Hoey
- IntroductionMichael Pace-Sigge and Katie J. Patterson | pp. xi–xxiii
- Part I. Discourse analysis
- Cohesion and coherence in a content-specific corpusMichael Hoey | pp. 1–38
- A corpus-based investigation into English representations of Turks and Ottomans in the early modern periodHelen Baker, Tony McEnery and Andrew Hardie | pp. 41–66
- Forced lexical primings in transdiscoursive political messaging: How they are produced and how they are receivedAlison Duguid and Alan Partington | pp. 67–92
- Can lexical priming be detected in conversation turn-taking strategies?Michael Pace-Sigge | pp. 93–117
- Part II. Similes, synonymy and metaphors
- Lexical priming and the selection and sequencing of synonymsLinda Bawcom | pp. 121–139
- Lexical priming and metaphor – Evidence of nesting in metaphoric languageKatie J. Patterson | pp. 141–161
- Teaching near-synonyms more effectively: A case study of “happy” words in Mandarin ChineseJuan Shao | pp. 163–185
- Part III. Collocations, associations and priming
- Lexical priming and register variationTony Berber Sardinha | pp. 189–229
- Colligational effects of collocation: Lexically-conditioned dependencies between modification patterns of the noun causePascual Cantos and Moisés Almela | pp. 231–249
- Part IV. Language learning and teaching
- Lexical and morphological priming: A holistic phraseological analysis of the Finnish time expression kelloJarmo Harri Jantunen | pp. 253–271
- Concordancing lexical primings: The rationale and design of a user-friendly corpus tool for English language teaching and self-tutoring based on the Lexical Priming theory of languageStephen Jeaco | pp. 273–296
- Notes on authors
- Index
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