Lexical Priming in Spoken English Usage

by Michael Pace-Sigge

Overview

This book shows that over forty years of psychological laboratory-based research support the claims of the Lexical Priming Theory. It examines how Lexical Priming applies to the use of spoken English as the book provides evidence that Lexical Priming is found in everyday spoken conversations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137331908
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	11/04/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	222
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Michael Pace-Sigge is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Eastern Finland. He was previously a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. Michael's research interests include Corpus Linguistics, Lexical Priming, the Merseyside/Liverpool English (Scouse) accent, Phonetics, Sociolinguistics and Spoken English use.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Lexical Priming: The Theoretical Backbone 3. Testing the Theory through Spoken-Corpus Evidence 4. Spoken Differs from Written – The Case of Yes and Yeah 5. Referring to Oneself and Others in Sco and Bnc/C 6. Intensifiers and Discourse Particles in their Use in Casual Speech 7. The Uses of Just and Like 8. The Most Frequent Clusters Found in Casually Spoken English Corpora 9. Conclusions Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

This book provides important evidence in support of the theory of lexical priming, as well as its validity for spoken language. … the book offers useful empirical tools for work at the meeting point for corpus-based and psycholinguistic research.” (Peter Thwaites, BAAL, Vol. 107-108, January, 2016)

'This book is clearly structured and well placed to achieve its goal of testing the appli- cation of lexical priming theory in spoken English usage, and it offers interesting and detailed insights for the topics of collocation, pattern and semantic association. It makes contributions to discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics, and can be recommended to faculty and students who are interested in lexical features in a collocational environment.' - Discourse Studies

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