| 书目名称 | Lexical Priming in Spoken English Usage | | 编辑 | Michael Pace-Sigge | | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/586/585437/585437.mp4 | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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. | | 出版日期 | Book 2013 | | 关键词 | Lexical Priming; Spoken English use; bibliography; discourse; English; literary diction | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137331908 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-349-46150-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-33190-8 | | copyright | Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013 |
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Front Matter |
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,Introduction, |
Michael Pace-Sigge |
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The evidence that Sinclair considers to be inadequate is naturally occurring language. Since 1990, the amount of, and accessibility to, computing power has certainly made it easier to process huge amounts of text. The one area, however, where only a comparatively little amount of text evidence is available is spoken language. Amongst spoken language, there is little research evidence of how words are used within a particular group of speakers and in how far it does or does not differ from the usage amongst a more ‘general’ speaker. While dialectologists have focussed on differences in sound production and the use of characteristic words or grammatical constructions, in this book I will focus on the differences in the use of highly frequent words and clusters of words.
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,Lexical Priming: The Theoretical Backbone, |
Michael Pace-Sigge |
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The focus of this book is to show how far the concept of lexical priming is applicable to spoken (English) language. To do this, in the second part of the book the focus is on naturally occurring uses of English. To find out whether corpus linguistic techniques provide the kinds of answers we are looking for, as a first step, I would like to clarify how this approach works. Both dialectology and corpus linguistics focus intensely on naturally occurring speech, investigating patterns of language usage. In this chapter, to show why I find the concept of lexical priming to be a valid one, I look at how the hypothesis came into being, approaching the concept in three different ways: Firstly, in Section 2.2.1 we look at developments in linguistics that have been taken up and further refined by contemporary corpus linguists and that form part of the concept of lexical priming. Secondly, Section 2.2.2 presents an overview of how Hoey’s (1991, 1995) ideas about . evolved and were tested and then described in . (2005). Thirdly, in Sections 2.3 and 2.4, the psychological concept of priming, first mention by Quillian (1961) is discussed. Then Section 2.5 looks at priming and the new options t
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,Testing the Theory through Spoken-Corpus Evidence, |
Michael Pace-Sigge |
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This book’s aim is to show how far the theory of . is applicable to spoken (English) language. If there is evidence for lexical priming as described above, the spoken word, being spontaneous and fairly non-inhibited in continuous conversational speech, should provide enough material to show that there is a priming effect that subconsciously steers the lexical choices made by speakers and groups of speakers. In order to support this claim, instances of spoken UK English were investigated for characteristic traits. Furthermore, English spoken by a particular subsection of English speakers was directly compared with usage found in the general corpus of spoken UK English.
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,Spoken Differs from Written — The Case of , and , |
Michael Pace-Sigge |
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Spoken language differs from written language in a number of ways. While it can be said that there is a continuum from the . to the ., the reverse is not true when we look at natural language use. However, if we look at language study and its historical roots, we see precisely the opposite: prescriptive linguists seem to use the written form as a starting point, and then seek to find a spoken form that conforms to the rules found in written (albeit secondary) use (cf. Stubbs 1996: 63–64).
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,Referring to Oneself and Others in SCO and BNC/C, |
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is the highest-frequency term in most spoken English corpora. It tends to be extremely frequent in use in written corpora, too. However, written corpora of English have the as the most frequently occurring word. In conversations, however, people tend to be highly referential — both to themselves and others — and use fewer nominals (cf. Carter and McCarthy 2007: 169).
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,Use of Intensifiers and Discourse Particles in Casual Speech, |
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In order to make a valid comparison between variations of casual spoken English, the focus has to be on a certain set of lexical markers likely to be used by the two speech communities being compared. This is particularly important given the fact that the subject of my research is spoken language, seen as more open to changes of expression and change over time than written language, which by its very nature is more conservative and bound to conventions.
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,The Uses of JUST and LIKE, |
Michael Pace-Sigge |
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The previous chapter compared two . that contrasted markedly in their patterns of use in SCO and BNC/C. This chapter looks at the items . and .. While these are also found used by themselves as discourse markers in both corpora, their high level of co-occurrence is a reason to discuss the two terms in the same chapter. Tagliamonte (2005) and other linguists have also highlighted further parallels between the words.
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,The Most Frequent , Found in Casually Spoken English Corpora, |
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Up to this point, we have looked at individual words and how they collocate with other words. These collocates form clusters, and we have looked at several instances in the two corpora where individual words have been used differently, with different collocates in SCO from those in BNC/C. This in turn has led to the comparison of short clusters, mostly two or three words, around these keywords.
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,Conclusions, |
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This book has been concerned with two main issues. The first has involved deciding how far . is a valid theory and how far its validity is rooted in psychological, experimental research that looks at the issue of .. The second focus has been whether the theory, which has so far been based on evidence gathered from written texts, is applicable to . English material. In order to address these issues, I have tried to extract from the Liverpool English corpus (SCO) evidence that shows use divergent from that in BNC/C and two other comparators.
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Back Matter |
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