Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Part I. Discourse analysis
7. Cohesion and coherence in a content-specific corpus 3
8. A corpus-based investigation into English representations of Turks and Ottomans in the early modern period 41
9. Forced lexical primings in transdiscoursive political messaging 67
10. Can lexical priming be detected in conversation turn-taking strategies? 93
11. Part II. Similes, synonymy and metaphors
12. Lexical priming and the selection and sequencing of synonyms 121
13. Lexical priming and metaphor – Evidence of nesting in metaphoric language 141
14. Teaching near-synonyms more effectively 163
15. Part III. Collocations, associations and priming
16. Lexical priming and register variation 189
17. Colligational effects of collocation 231
18. Part IV. Language learning and teaching
19. Lexical and morphological priming 253
20. Concordancing lexical primings 273
21. Notes on authors 297
22. Index 303