Trust the Text: Language, Corpus and Discourse

By J. Sinclair, R. Carter. 2004

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Constructing a second language: Analyses and computational simulations of the emergence of linguistic constructions from usage. (2009, background): “…2003, 2006; Lakoff, 1987; Langacker, 1987; Ninio, 2006; Robinson & Ellis, 2008; Tomasello, 2003), corpus linguistics (Biber, Conrad, & Reppen, 1998; Sinclair, 1991, 2004), and psychological theories of cognitive and associative learning as they relate to the induction of psycholinguistic…”
An Academic Formulas List: New Methods in Phraseology Research (2010, background): “Sinclair (1991, 2004) summarizes this in his ‘idiom principle:’ ‘a language user has available to him or her a large number of semi-preconstructed phrases that constitute single choices, even though they might appear to be analyzable into segments.’”
Patterns and Meanings in Discourse: Theory and practice in corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) (2015, background): “…reason to ‘trust’ this text, or not, the studies referenced clearly reveal that while the idiom principle was still ‘under-described’ a decade ago (Sinclair, 2004, 140-41), the imbalance between language learning studies on grammar (logic) and the idiom tendency (schemata) has been much…”
Formulaic Language in Native and Second Language Speakers: Psycholinguistics, Corpus Linguistics, and TESOL (2008, background): “Corpus linguistic research demonstrates that natural language makesconsiderable use of recurrent multiword patterns or formulas (Ellis, 1996, 2008a; Granger & Meunier, in press; Pawley & Syder, 1983; Sinclair, 1991, 2004; Wray, 2002).”
The Dynamics of Second Language Emergence: Cycles of Language Use, Language Change, and Language Acquisition (2008, background): “…that it is better to look to the phrase or to the construction than to words as the basic level of language representation where form and meaning come together with greatest reliability (Chafe, 1994; Croft, 2001; N. C. Ellis, 1996, 2007b; Goldberg, 1995, 2003; Peters, 1983; Sinclair, 1991, 2004).”
Usage‐Based Language: Investigating the Latent Structures That Underpin Acquisition (2013, background): “There is no one in corpus linguistics who “trusts the text” more than Sinclair (2004) in his operationalizations of linguistic constructions on the basis of repeated patterns of words in collocation, colligation, and Language Learning 63:Supp.”
Taste and smell words form an affectively loaded and emotionally flexible part of the English lexicon (2016, unknown): “However, in some cases, intuitions about a word’s emotional connotation can be misleading (cf. Hunston, 2007; Morley & Partington, 2009; Sinclair, 2004) and nowadays, there are more objective ways of quantifying emotional valence (Liu, 2012: Ch. 6; Mohammad, 2012; Pang & Lee, 2008: Ch. 7; Warriner,…”
THE ROLES OF PHONOLOGICAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY AND WORKING MEMORY IN L2 GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY LEARNING (2012, background): “…the basic level of language representation where form and meaning meet with greatest reliability; that formulaic sequences play a central role in language acquisition; and that fluent language users have a vast repertoire of memorized language sequences (Pawley & Syder, 1983; Sinclair, 1991, 2004).”
Corpus Research Applications in Second Language Teaching (2011, background): “Existing pedagogical descriptions are evaluated in the light of “new evidence” (Sinclair, 2004c, p. 271), and new decisions are made about the selection of language phenomena, the progression in the course, and the presentation of the selected items and structures (cf. Mindt, 1981; Römer, 2005).”
Textual Patterns: Key words and corpus analysis in language education (2006, background): “In Part I the reader is given help conceptualizing how "theory derives from pattern; pattern reflects theory" (Sinclair, 2004, p. 10) at both lexical and grammatical levels.”
The Routledge Handbook of English for Academic Purposes (2016, unknown): “Further reading Benesch (2001); Pennycook (1999, 2010)”