LEADER 03319nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910455873103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4106-0974-X 035 $a(CKB)111087027891142 035 $a(EBL)335495 035 $a(OCoLC)476147714 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000225412 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11197660 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000225412 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10230050 035 $a(PQKB)11074794 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC335495 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL335495 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10227216 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027891142 100 $a20030605d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe power of words$b[electronic resource] $eunveiling the speaker and writer's hidden craft /$fDavid Kaufer ... [et al.] ; foreword by Todd Oakley 210 $aMahwah, N.J. $cLawrence Erlbaum$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-65263-4 311 $a0-8058-4783-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Words and their Potency for Priming Audiences; I: Preliminaries; 1 Priming Audience and Practices of Literacy; 2 Cataloging English Strings for Their Priming Potencies: A Report of a Research Study; 3 Methods for Selecting and Cataloging Strings; 4 The Catalog Hierarchy; 5 The Hierarchy in Relation to Previous Scholarship; II: Results; 6 Cluster 1: Internal Perspectives; 7 Cluster 2: Relational Perspectives, Part I; 8 Cluster 2: Relational Perspectives, Part II 327 $a9 Cluster 3: External PerspectivesIII: Implications and Applications of Rhetorical Priming Theory; 10 Using Priming Strings to Analyze Corpora of Texts; References; Author Index; Subject Index 330 $aIn 1888, Mark Twain reflected on the writer's special feel for words to his correspondent, George Bainton, noting that ""the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is really a large matter."" We recognize differences between a politician who is ""willful"" and one who is ""willing"" even though the difference does not cross word-stems or parts of speech. We recognize that being ""held up"" evokes different experiences depending upon whether its direct object is a meeting, a bank, or an example. Although we can notice hundreds of examples in the language where small differe 606 $aEnglish language$xSemantics 606 $aEnglish language$xSpoken English 606 $aEnglish language$xWritten English 606 $aWritten communication 606 $aOral communication 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish language$xSemantics. 615 0$aEnglish language$xSpoken English. 615 0$aEnglish language$xWritten English. 615 0$aWritten communication. 615 0$aOral communication. 676 $a401/.43 701 $aKaufer$b David S$0966152 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455873103321 996 $aThe power of words$92192479 997 $aUNINA