Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Collocation and lexical priming; 2 Lexical priming and meaning; 3 Lexical priming and grammar; 4 Lexical priming and lexical relations; 5 Lexical priming and polysemy; 6 Lexical priming and text: two claims; 7 Lexical priming and text: a third claim; 8 Lexical priming and grammatical creativity; 9 Lexical priming and other kinds of creativity; 10 Some theoretical and practical issues; Bibliography; Index.
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In Lexical Priming Michael Hoey argues that words are 'primed' for use through our experience with them, so that everything we know about a word is a product of our encounters with it.