Alan Partington, Eugenia Diegoli

Lexical Priming

Evolution, Evaluation and Applications to English and Japanese

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Produktbeschreibung

This pioneering volume builds on prof. Michael Hoey's seminal work on Lexical Priming (LP) theory by applying it to specific varieties of Japanese, alongside English, as a first step in corroborating and expanding the validity of LP theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781032742915
• ISBN-10: 1032742917
• Artikelnr.: 74065202

Autorenporträt

Alan Partington has been Professor of English Linguistics at the Universities of Camerino and Bologna since 1999. He is a co-founder of the Siena-Bologna (SiBol) Group of Corpus Linguistics Research. He was the first Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Corpora and Discourse from 2018 to 2022. Eugenia Diegoli is Assistant Professor at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her research interests include Japanese language and linguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics. Her first monograph Online apologies in Japanese was published in 2025.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Typographical conventions
Introduction (0.1 A primary outline of research aims, or: What is this book about?
0.2 Materials and methodology)
Chapter 1: Hoey's original Lexical Priming theory, 2005 (1.1 The principal hypotheses
1.2 The implications of LP theory
1.3 Language acquisition and performance
1.4 Lexical Priming and meaning
1.5 Lexical Priming, grammar, syntax and phraseology
1.6 Lexical Priming and creativity
1.7 Conclusion)
Chapter 2: The Evolution of LP theory from 2005 to today (2.1 Introduction
2.2 Lexical Priming in a corpus of a spoken discourse-type
2.3 Lexical Priming: Applications and advances, 2017
2.4 Forced Lexical Priming
2.5 Conclusion)
Chapter 3: Data, methods and tools (3.1 Introduction
3.2 Corpus-assisted discourse studies (CaDS)
3.3 The data
3.4 Conclusion)
Chapter 4: LP and grammar (4.1 Introduction
4.2 Grammatical 'categories'
4.3 What is a 'word'?
4.4 Colligational primings
4.5 Conclusion)
Chapter 5: Lexical Priming and polysemy (5.1 Introduction
5.2 Nesting, polysemy and 'drinking problems'
5.3 Polysemy in Japanese: The case of amai 'sweet/permissive'
5.4 Conclusion)
Chapter 6: Evaluation in English at the lexical and clausal levels (6.1 Whatever happened to evaluative primings?
6.2 What is the role of evaluation in communication?
6.3 Evaluation in English: From simplicity to complexity
6.4 Conclusion)
Chapter 7: Evaluation in Japanese discourses at the lexical and clausal levels (7.1 Evaluation in Japanese at the collocational level
7.2 Evaluation in Japanese at the clausal level
7.3 Corroboration in the jaTenTen11
Conclusion)
Chapter 8: Evaluative cohesion in whole texts (8.1 Introduction
8.2 Propositional textual cohesion in Hoey 2005
8.3 Evaluative textual cohesion
8.4 Switching evaluations: From positive to negative and back again
8.5 The evaluative cohesion of complete texts
8.6 Conclusion)
Chapter 9: Lexical Priming and the systems of 'modality' (9.1 Modality in modern standard English grammar
9.2 Modality in English and LP theory
9.3 A pause for summarising: What then is a 'clause' or 'sentence'? Proposition, evaluation and modal stance
9.4 Modality in Japanese
9.5 Modality in the Relationship corpus
9.6 Conclusion)
Chapter 10: Lexical Priming and im/politeness (10.1 Introduction
10.2 From evaluation to im/politeness
10.3 Face-work: Where priming combines with inferencing
10.4 Politeness primings in Japanese: The case of apologies
10.5 Overriding of politeness primings in Japanese
10.6 Conclusion)
Chapter 11: Lexical Priming in interactive question-and-response discourse-types (11.1 Introduction
11.2 A few more words on Yahoo! Chiebukuro
11.3 Another question-and-response discourse-type: Press briefings
11.4 Comparing and contrasting questions and responses in Japanese
11.5 Conclusion)
Chapter 12: Lexical Priming and linguistic variation (12.1 Introduction
12.2 The challenges of comparison
12.3 Comparing the Relationship and News corpora through keywords
12.4 Investigating similarities
12.5 Conclusion)
Chapter 13: A round-up and a request
Appendix
Index