Life before Nation
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Paul Meara
Abstract
This paper presents a bibliometric analysis comparing the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition published in 1982 and 2006. A set of co-citation maps shows that there are some significant changes in the field over this period. The most important of these changes is a growing consensus in vocabulary research, mainly focussed on the work of Paul Nation, whose seminal book Teaching and Learning Vocabulary appeared in 1990. The data also suggest that the influence of cognitive psychologists – important in the 1982 data has become much weaker in the 2006 research. The paper argues that co-citation analysis provides a useful tool for exploring important trends in the intellectual history of vocabulary research.
Abstract
This paper presents a bibliometric analysis comparing the research on L2 vocabulary acquisition published in 1982 and 2006. A set of co-citation maps shows that there are some significant changes in the field over this period. The most important of these changes is a growing consensus in vocabulary research, mainly focussed on the work of Paul Nation, whose seminal book Teaching and Learning Vocabulary appeared in 1990. The data also suggest that the influence of cognitive psychologists – important in the 1982 data has become much weaker in the 2006 research. The paper argues that co-citation analysis provides a useful tool for exploring important trends in the intellectual history of vocabulary research.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Contributors vii
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Introduction
- On the relatedness of functionalism and pragmatics 1
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I. Methods in the analysis of language and discourse
- Developing comprehensive criteria of adequacy 19
- A method of analysing recontextualisation in the communication of science 37
- Contrastive corpus annotation in the CONTRANOT project 57
- Form and function in evaluative language 87
- Life before Nation 111
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II. Pragmatics and grammar
- A lexico-paradigmatic approach to English setting-constructions 133
- How did we think? 149
- The adverb truly in Present-Day English 169
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III. Current trends in pragmatics and discourse analysis
- Nominal reference and the dynamics of discourse 189
- ‘Pragmatic punting’ and prosody 209
- Besides as a connective 223
- Searle and Sinclair on communicative acts 243
- Strategies of (in)directness in Spanish speakers’ production of complaints and disagreements in English and Spanish 261
- Name index 285
- Term index 289
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Contributors vii
-
Introduction
- On the relatedness of functionalism and pragmatics 1
-
I. Methods in the analysis of language and discourse
- Developing comprehensive criteria of adequacy 19
- A method of analysing recontextualisation in the communication of science 37
- Contrastive corpus annotation in the CONTRANOT project 57
- Form and function in evaluative language 87
- Life before Nation 111
-
II. Pragmatics and grammar
- A lexico-paradigmatic approach to English setting-constructions 133
- How did we think? 149
- The adverb truly in Present-Day English 169
-
III. Current trends in pragmatics and discourse analysis
- Nominal reference and the dynamics of discourse 189
- ‘Pragmatic punting’ and prosody 209
- Besides as a connective 223
- Searle and Sinclair on communicative acts 243
- Strategies of (in)directness in Spanish speakers’ production of complaints and disagreements in English and Spanish 261
- Name index 285
- Term index 289
