[Corpora-List] Book Announcement

[Michael Pace-Sigge]

Dear all,
I would like to draw your attention to the following new publication:

Lexical Priming in Spoken English Usage
Michael Pace-Sigge. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Nov. 2013)

About the book
Corpus Linguistics is becoming an increasingly important branch of language research
and interest has spread noticeably beyond the confines of academia, fuelled by
applications like text predicting software. The idea of priming in language goes back to the early 1960s with the concept of a 'Teachable Language Comprehender', which started experiments into language processing and which inspired one of Google's chief engineers. The concept of Lexical Priming (Hoey: 2005) aims to supply answers as to how we can explain word choices and construction forms that are more frequent than laws of probability would allow. This book provides a range of arguments to support the validity of Lexical Priming as a linguistic theory, while it also extends the reach of what Lexical Priming has been used to describe. Beyond the written-text material originally used, this book provides evidence that lexical priming also applies to everyday spoken conversations as its psychological foundations predict that it should.

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=668070


Dr. Michael Pace-Sigge
Senior Lecturer,
Room 155 Agora
Tel.+ 358 (0) 294452154

School of Humanities
University of Eastern Finland
P.O. Box 111
FI-80101 Joensuu
Finland
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=668070

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