Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and LanguagePsychology Press, 2005 - 202 pagine Lexical Primingproposes a radical new theory of the lexicon, which amounts to a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. Here they are not confined to the definitions given to them in dictionaries but instead interact with other words in common patterns of use.Classical theory holds that grammar is generated first and words are then dropped into the opportunities thus created; Hoey's theory reverses the roles of lexis and grammar, arguing that lexis is complexly and systematically structured and that grammar is an outcome of this lexical structure. He shows that the phenomenon of 'collocation', the property of language whereby two or more words seem to appear frequently in each other's company (e. g., 'inevitable' and 'consequence'), offers a clue to the way language is really organised. Using concrete statistical evidence from a corpus of newspaper English, but also referring to travel writing and literary text, the author argues that words are 'primed' for use through our experience with them, so that everything we know about a word is a product of our encounters with it. This knowledge explains how speakers of a language succeed in being fluent, creative and natural. |
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1 Collocation and lexical priming | 1 |
2 Lexical priming and meaning | 16 |
3 Lexical priming and grammar | 38 |
4 Lexical priming and lexical relations | 63 |
5 Lexical priming and polysemy | 81 |
two claims | 114 |
a third claim | 129 |
8 Lexical priming and grammatical creativity | 152 |
9 Lexical priming and other kinds of creativity | 169 |
10 Some theoretical and practical issues | 178 |
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adjectives Adjunct appear argue associations and colligations Bill Bryson break at line Bryson sentence cause cent Chapter choice claim clause co-hyponyms cohesive chains colligational priming context corpus corpus linguists creativity definition discourse distribution drinking problem hypothesis example function Guardian Halliday Hammerfest Hoey hyponyms immunity immunity Legal indefinite instances of reason language user learner lexical items lexical priming lexis linguistic logic markers negatively primed nested combinations nominal group noun Oslo paragraph break paragraph-initial patterns PLACE NAME polysemous positive priming postmodification pragmatic association predicted prepositional primed for cohesion primed to collocate primed to occur priming prosody primings of reason pronouns rationality recognise result round the world semantic association semantic prosody semantic set sense sentence-initial Sinclair sixty speakers strongly primed structure Subject SURNAME Table tense text-initial textual colligation textual priming thematised Theme tion travel writing typically primed unspecific deictics verb winter winter word word or word word sequence