Lexical Priming http://lexicalpriming.org A new theory of words and language Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:33:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 en 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/ Michael Hoey gave a presentation summarising the work of the Textual Priming Project at the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL) conference in Swansea on Friday 12 September 2008.

  • M. Hoey, M.B. O’Donnell, M. Mahlberg & M. Scott, ‘Forecasting the beginnings of newspaper texts: Some corpus & experimental findings’
]]> 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

]]> http://lexicalpriming.org/2008/03/20/presentation-from-aacl-2008/feed/ Corpus Linguistics 2007 - University of Birmingham, 27-30 July 2007 http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/08/02/corpus-linguistics-2007-university-of-birmingham-27-30-july-2007/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/08/02/corpus-linguistics-2007-university-of-birmingham-27-30-july-2007/#comments Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:48:30 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/08/02/corpus-linguistics-2007-university-of-birmingham-27-30-july-2007/ The fourth Corpus Linguistics conference was held at the University of Birmingham from July 27 to 30.

There was a presentation of work from the Textual Priming Project:

Michael Hoey, Matthew Brook O’Donnell, Michaela Mahlberg & Mike Scott - ‘Exploring the textual positions and functions of lexical items in hard news stories’

]]> http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/08/02/corpus-linguistics-2007-university-of-birmingham-27-30-july-2007/feed/ ESFLCW2007- The 19th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/07/31/esflcw2007-the-19th-european-systemic-functional-linguistics-conference-and-workshop/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/07/31/esflcw2007-the-19th-european-systemic-functional-linguistics-conference-and-workshop/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:35:01 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/07/31/esflcw2007-the-19th-european-systemic-functional-linguistics-conference-and-workshop/ The 19th European SFL Conference and Workshop was held at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, 23rd - 25th July 2007.

Michaela Mahlberg gave a presentation of work from the Textual Priming Project:

Michaela Mahlberg and Matthew Brook O’Donnell, ‘Functions of lexis in hard news stories: Methods, theory and interpretation’

]]> http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/07/31/esflcw2007-the-19th-european-systemic-functional-linguistics-conference-and-workshop/feed/ ICAME 28 Conference - Stratford-Upon-Avon, May 23-27, 2007 http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/06/10/icame-28-conference-stratford-upon-avon-may-23-27-2007/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/06/10/icame-28-conference-stratford-upon-avon-may-23-27-2007/#comments Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:58:24 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/06/10/icame-28-conference-stratford-upon-avon-may-23-27-2007/ The 28th ICAME Conference was held in Stratford-Upon-Avon between May 23 and 27, 2007.

There was a presentation of work from the Textual Priming Project:

Matthew Brook O’Donnell, Michael Hoey, Mike Scott, Michaela Mahlberg - ‘‘Where did you say that?’ The positional features of words as a characteristic of meaning’

]]> http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/06/10/icame-28-conference-stratford-upon-avon-may-23-27-2007/feed/ Aston Corpus Symposium: Friday May 4th 2007 http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/05/20/aston-corpus-symposium-friday-may-4th-2007/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/05/20/aston-corpus-symposium-friday-may-4th-2007/#comments Sun, 20 May 2007 13:49:58 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/05/20/aston-corpus-symposium-friday-may-4th-2007/ The Aston Corpus Symposium was held on Friday May 4th 2007 at Aston University, Birmingham.

 There were two presentations reporting work from the Textual Priming Project:

  1. Michael Hoey (and Matt O’Donnell) - ‘The beginning of something important..?’
  2. Mike Scott - ‘Homing in on the text-initial cluster’
]]> http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/05/20/aston-corpus-symposium-friday-may-4th-2007/feed/ Presentations from PALC 2007 (19-22 April 2007) http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/05/10/presentations-from-palc-2007-19-22-april-2007/ http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/05/10/presentations-from-palc-2007-19-22-april-2007/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 14:53:43 +0000 matt http://lexicalpriming.org/2007/07/18/presentations-from-palc-2007-19-22-april-2007/ PALC (Practical Applications in Language and Computers) 2007 was held at the Łódź University Conference Centre,  Łódź University, Poland from 19 to 22 April 2007.

 There were two presentations from the Textual Priming Project:

  1. Michael Hoey - ‘The Beginning of something important?: Corpus evidence on the text beginnings of hard news stories’
  2. Matthew Brook O’Donnell, Mike Scott, Michaela Mahlberg and Michael Hoey - ‘”When the text counts” Exploring the Implications of ‘text’ as unit in corpus linguistics’
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