The textual priming project is underway in the School of English, University of Liverpool, supported by funding from the AHRC.
The aims of the project are:
- to investigate how many (and what types of) lexical items are primed to appear in text-initial or paragraph-initial position
- to identify lexico-grammatical patterns and see how these patterns can be functionally interpreted in the textual contexts
- to relate these lexical and corpus-driven facts to current textual descriptions of (hard) news stories that might provide explanations for the positive primings of relevant lexis
The project team members are:
- Michael Hoey (Principal)
- Mike Scott (Co-investigator)
- Michaela Mahlberg (Co-investigator)
- Matthew Brook O’Donnell (Project manager)
August 6th, 2008 at 9:49 am
[…] 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 […]