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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783871403321

Autore

Hoey Michael

Titolo

Lexical priming : a new theory of words and language / / Michael Hoey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-134-33358-7

1-134-33359-5

0-203-38564-0

1-283-70798-5

1-280-15624-4

0-203-32763-2

Descrizione fisica

xiii, 202 p

Disciplina

413.028

Soggetti

Lexicology

Grammar, Comparative and general

Discourse analysis

Creativity (Linguistics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Collocation and lexical priming -- 2. Lexical priming and meaning -- 3. Lexical priming and grammar -- 4. Lexical priming and lexical relations -- 5. Lexical priming and polysemy -- 6. Lexical priming and text : two claims -- 7. Lexical priming and text : a third claim -- 8. Lexical priming and grammatical creativity -- 9. Lexical priming and other kinds of creativity -- 10. Some theoretical and practical issues.

Sommario/riassunto

Lexical Priming proposes 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. 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.