E-raamat: Lexical Priming: Evolution, Evaluation and Applications to English and Japanese

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: Hoeys 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

Alan Partington has been Professor of English Linguistics at the Universities of Camerino and Bologna since 1999. He is a co-founder of the Siena-Bologna (SiBol) Group of Corpus Linguistics Research. He was the first Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Corpora and Discourse from 2018 to 2022.

Eugenia Diegoli is Assistant Professor at Ca Foscari University of Venice. Her research interests include Japanese language and linguistics, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics. Her first monograph Online apologies in Japanese was published in 2025.