Lexical Priming http://lexicalpriming.org A new theory of words and language Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:05:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 en PAPER: Lexicography, Grammar and Textual Position http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-lexicography-grammar-and-textual-position/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-lexicography-grammar-and-textual-position/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:01:02 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-lexicography-grammar-and-textual-position/ 1

]]> http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-lexicography-grammar-and-textual-position/feed/ PAPER: The beginning of something important http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-the-beginning-of-something-important/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-the-beginning-of-something-important/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:00:57 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-the-beginning-of-something-important/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-the-beginning-of-something-important/feed/ PAPER: According to a study by… http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-according-to-a-study-by/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-according-to-a-study-by/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:00:53 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-according-to-a-study-by/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-according-to-a-study-by/feed/ PAPER: How we really paragraph http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-how-we-really-paragraph/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-how-we-really-paragraph/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:00:48 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-how-we-really-paragraph/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-how-we-really-paragraph/feed/ PAPER: Death to the Topic Sentence http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-death-to-the-topic-sentence/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-death-to-the-topic-sentence/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:00:43 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-death-to-the-topic-sentence/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2010/09/19/paper-death-to-the-topic-sentence/feed/ PAPER: A fresh view of the structure of hard news stories http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/11/21/paper-a-fresh-view-of-the-structure-of-hard-news-stories/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/11/21/paper-a-fresh-view-of-the-structure-of-hard-news-stories/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:08:03 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/11/21/paper-a-fresh-view-of-the-structure-of-hard-news-stories/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/11/21/paper-a-fresh-view-of-the-structure-of-hard-news-stories/feed/ Presentation for BAAL 2008 Conference http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/09/18/presentation-for-baal-2008-conference/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/09/18/presentation-for-baal-2008-conference/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:19:27 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/09/18/presentation-for-baal-2008-conference/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/09/18/presentation-for-baal-2008-conference/feed/ Presentation from 11th Warwick Postgraduate Conference in Applied Linguistics http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/08/06/32/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/08/06/32/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:41:06 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/08/06/32/ The Centre for Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick held its 11th Postgraduate Conference on Wednesday, 18th June 2008.

Michael Hoey and Matthew Brook O’Donnell presented a revised version of their paper applying the findings of the Textual Priming Project to the analysis and teaching of paragraphing in text.

PowerPoint slides are available:

Death to topic sentences!

]]> http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/08/06/32/feed/ Presentation from IATEFL 2008 (Exeter April 7-11) http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/04/15/presentation-from-iatefl-2008-exeter-april-7-11/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/04/15/presentation-from-iatefl-2008-exeter-april-7-11/#comments Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:41:44 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/04/15/presentation-from-iatefl-2008-exeter-april-7-11/ Michael Hoey and Matthew Brook O’Donnell presented a paper called ‘It was announced yesterday’ at IATEFL 2008 on April 10, 2008.

The paper focused on the pedagogical implications of the notion of textual colligation and reported on findings from the AHRC Textual Priming Project. The aim of the project is to carry out an extensive exploration of textual colligation in a corpus of newspaper articles.

PowerPoint slides are available:

it was announced yesterday_IATEFL2008

Video of the presentation has been posted on YouTube:

]]> http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/04/15/presentation-from-iatefl-2008-exeter-april-7-11/feed/ Presentation from AACL 2008 http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/03/20/presentation-from-aacl-2008/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/03/20/presentation-from-aacl-2008/#comments Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:54:55 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/04/15/presentation-from-aacl-2008/ Results of initial work exploring the notion of ‘concgrams’ in reference to the study of text-initial items in a newspaper corpus were presented at the AACL2008 (American Association for Corpus Linguistics) conference, held at BYU, Utah, April 13-15, 2008.

Download a PDF version of the presentation: Exploring Text-initial Concgrams in a Newspaper Corpus

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