Lexical Priming

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