Alan Partington
Biographic Data
| ID | 958654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Partington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Partington |
| SIGNATURE | PARTINGTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7881-8062 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Lexical Priming theory
This paper is an early step in a wider project which, on the behest of the late Prof Michael Hoey, attempts to review the evolution of Lexical Priming (LP) theory since its first appearance in the early 2000s. Hoey’s later unpublished work was characterised by his desire that LP theory be tested on discourse-types beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English. Here, we make a first attempt to test LP theory on Japanese data from a we…
Corpus Analysis of Political Language
Politics is a commerce whose currency is language. This entry indicates some of the advantages of corpus‐assisted approaches in analyzing a wide variety of different kinds of political discourse, both spoken and written. Some of the potential sources of data are listed and different sorts of corpus‐assisted research and the different kinds of research questions which have been addressed are categorized. There are at least two distinct types of re…
Evaluative clash, evaluative cohesion and how we actually read evaluation in texts
Mind the gaps
This paper addresses the charge sometimes made against corpus linguistics that CL cannot deal with absences, that is, information not to be found in a corpus. We begin by examining what absence means in a linguistic sense and distinguish among different varieties of absences, e.g. ‘known absence’ compared with ‘unknown absence’, absence from a sizeable corpus, from a limited set of texts or from a position in a single text, relative absence and a…
Patterns and Meanings in Discourse
This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a wide variety of language topics and areas including metaphor, irony, evaluation, (im)politeness, stylistics, language change and sociopolitical issues. Ea…
Corpus Analysis of Political Language
It is difficult to conceive of any political action which does not involve using language: political speeches, newspaper editorials, press conferences, Acts of Parliament, declarations of war and peace negotiations, to name but a few.
The changing discourses on antisemitism in the UK press from 1993 to 2009
This paper examines the discourses relating to antisemitism in the three leading UK national “quality” newspapers from 1993 to 2009. To this end, three corpora were compiled, each consisting of the complete set of instances in context in these papers where antisemitism is mentioned, the first from 1993 the others from 2005 and 2009. Considerable changes were noted between the discourses in the earlier corpus compared to the later ones. In the fir…
Double-speak” at the White House
In this paper, I consider whether the theory of bisociation, the sudden shift from one script (or narrative outline), or language mode or register to another, first developed in relation to joke humor, can help shed light on other forms of laughter-talk (defined as the talk preceding and provoking, intentionally or otherwise, an episode of laughter), particularly that observed in one form of (semi-)spontaneous discourse, namely White House press …
Phrasal irony
A few Frequently Asked Questions about semantic — or evaluative — prosody
To say that there has been a certain amount of confusion and debate over the nature and function of the notion of semantic prosody would be an understatement. In this paper we attempt to address and assess, in the light of current thinking in the field of lexical grammar, some of the main issues which have been raised
Teasing at the White House
In this article, I examine teasing in the laughter-talk of two transcribed spoken corpora of press briefings held at the White House, one from the Democrat and one from the current Republican administration. Categorizations \nare developed, firstly, of types and functions of teases and, secondly, of types and functions of responses to teases, as produced by both the podium and the assembled press. Important implications for face/ \n(im)politeness…
A linguistic account of wordplay
Irony and reversal of evaluation
Utterly content in each other's company
In this paper I wish to examine the two related concepts of semantic prosody and semantic preference. I will begin the section on each with a definition, attempt a review of relevant current positions and then describe a number of corpus-based experiments I conducted to throw light on the two phenomena. Finally, I will try to draw some conclusions about the relationship between them
Reading Concordances
"Unusuality" and Rhetorical Effect
On fait ici état d'une étude de 2 500 manchettes tirées de la presse de langue anglaise : les considérations portent sur les mécanismes de modifications de citations et d'expressions toutes faites afin de produire des formulations "inusitées" dans la langue
Patterns and Meanings
Patterns and Meanings consists of case studies which make use of corpora and concordance technology. Each case study elaborates a problem area, makes reference to both the descriptive and applied literature thus far, and then suggests ways of exploiting corpus data to shed light on the problem. Language phenomena investigated include word sense, phraseology and syntax, metaphor and creative use, text reference, idiom, and translation. Emphasis is…
True friends are hard to find
The phenomenon of false friends is wellknown to translators. What have been studied much less, although they are probably more common, are pairs of words of similar form in related languages which are usually thought of and listed in bilingual dictionaries as reliable translation equivalents, but which, on closer scrutiny, often turn out to be used in different ways in the two languages. Taking examples from English and Italian (e.g. ‘correct’ an…
The Originality of the Avant-garde and other Modernist Myths
Irony and reversal of evaluation
Utterly content in each other's company
In this paper I wish to examine the two related concepts of semantic prosody and semantic preference. I will begin the section on each with a definition, attempt a review of relevant current positions and then describe a number of corpus-based experiments I conducted to throw light on the two phenomena. Finally, I will try to draw some conclusions about the relationship between them
Phrasal irony
A few Frequently Asked Questions about semantic — or evaluative — prosody
To say that there has been a certain amount of confusion and debate over the nature and function of the notion of semantic prosody would be an understatement. In this paper we attempt to address and assess, in the light of current thinking in the field of lexical grammar, some of the main issues which have been raised
Evaluative clash, evaluative cohesion and how we actually read evaluation in texts
Mind the gaps
This paper addresses the charge sometimes made against corpus linguistics that CL cannot deal with absences, that is, information not to be found in a corpus. We begin by examining what absence means in a linguistic sense and distinguish among different varieties of absences, e.g. ‘known absence’ compared with ‘unknown absence’, absence from a sizeable corpus, from a limited set of texts or from a position in a single text, relative absence and a…
A linguistic account of wordplay
Double-speak” at the White House
In this paper, I consider whether the theory of bisociation, the sudden shift from one script (or narrative outline), or language mode or register to another, first developed in relation to joke humor, can help shed light on other forms of laughter-talk (defined as the talk preceding and provoking, intentionally or otherwise, an episode of laughter), particularly that observed in one form of (semi-)spontaneous discourse, namely White House press …
True friends are hard to find
The phenomenon of false friends is wellknown to translators. What have been studied much less, although they are probably more common, are pairs of words of similar form in related languages which are usually thought of and listed in bilingual dictionaries as reliable translation equivalents, but which, on closer scrutiny, often turn out to be used in different ways in the two languages. Taking examples from English and Italian (e.g. ‘correct’ an…
The Originality of the Avant-garde and other Modernist Myths
True friends are hard to find
The phenomenon of false friends is wellknown to translators. What have been studied much less, although they are probably more common, are pairs of words of similar form in related languages which are usually thought of and listed in bilingual dictionaries as reliable translation equivalents, but which, on closer scrutiny, often turn out to be used in different ways in the two languages. Taking examples from English and Italian (e.g. ‘correct’ an…
Patterns and Meanings
Patterns and Meanings consists of case studies which make use of corpora and concordance technology. Each case study elaborates a problem area, makes reference to both the descriptive and applied literature thus far, and then suggests ways of exploiting corpus data to shed light on the problem. Language phenomena investigated include word sense, phraseology and syntax, metaphor and creative use, text reference, idiom, and translation. Emphasis is…
"Unusuality" and Rhetorical Effect
On fait ici état d'une étude de 2 500 manchettes tirées de la presse de langue anglaise : les considérations portent sur les mécanismes de modifications de citations et d'expressions toutes faites afin de produire des formulations "inusitées" dans la langue
Utterly content in each other's company
In this paper I wish to examine the two related concepts of semantic prosody and semantic preference. I will begin the section on each with a definition, attempt a review of relevant current positions and then describe a number of corpus-based experiments I conducted to throw light on the two phenomena. Finally, I will try to draw some conclusions about the relationship between them
Reading Concordances
Irony and reversal of evaluation
Teasing at the White House
In this article, I examine teasing in the laughter-talk of two transcribed spoken corpora of press briefings held at the White House, one from the Democrat and one from the current Republican administration. Categorizations \nare developed, firstly, of types and functions of teases and, secondly, of types and functions of responses to teases, as produced by both the podium and the assembled press. Important implications for face/ \n(im)politeness…
A linguistic account of wordplay
A few Frequently Asked Questions about semantic — or evaluative — prosody
To say that there has been a certain amount of confusion and debate over the nature and function of the notion of semantic prosody would be an understatement. In this paper we attempt to address and assess, in the light of current thinking in the field of lexical grammar, some of the main issues which have been raised
Double-speak” at the White House
In this paper, I consider whether the theory of bisociation, the sudden shift from one script (or narrative outline), or language mode or register to another, first developed in relation to joke humor, can help shed light on other forms of laughter-talk (defined as the talk preceding and provoking, intentionally or otherwise, an episode of laughter), particularly that observed in one form of (semi-)spontaneous discourse, namely White House press …
Phrasal irony
Corpus Analysis of Political Language
It is difficult to conceive of any political action which does not involve using language: political speeches, newspaper editorials, press conferences, Acts of Parliament, declarations of war and peace negotiations, to name but a few.
The changing discourses on antisemitism in the UK press from 1993 to 2009
This paper examines the discourses relating to antisemitism in the three leading UK national “quality” newspapers from 1993 to 2009. To this end, three corpora were compiled, each consisting of the complete set of instances in context in these papers where antisemitism is mentioned, the first from 1993 the others from 2005 and 2009. Considerable changes were noted between the discourses in the earlier corpus compared to the later ones. In the fir…
Patterns and Meanings in Discourse
This work is designed, firstly, to both provoke theoretical discussion and serve as a practical guide for researchers and students in the field of corpus linguistics and, secondly, to offer a wide-ranging introduction to corpus techniques for practitioners of discourse studies. It delves into a wide variety of language topics and areas including metaphor, irony, evaluation, (im)politeness, stylistics, language change and sociopolitical issues. Ea…
Mind the gaps
This paper addresses the charge sometimes made against corpus linguistics that CL cannot deal with absences, that is, information not to be found in a corpus. We begin by examining what absence means in a linguistic sense and distinguish among different varieties of absences, e.g. ‘known absence’ compared with ‘unknown absence’, absence from a sizeable corpus, from a limited set of texts or from a position in a single text, relative absence and a…
Evaluative clash, evaluative cohesion and how we actually read evaluation in texts
Corpus Analysis of Political Language
Politics is a commerce whose currency is language. This entry indicates some of the advantages of corpus‐assisted approaches in analyzing a wide variety of different kinds of political discourse, both spoken and written. Some of the potential sources of data are listed and different sorts of corpus‐assisted research and the different kinds of research questions which have been addressed are categorized. There are at least two distinct types of re…
Lexical Priming theory
This paper is an early step in a wider project which, on the behest of the late Prof Michael Hoey, attempts to review the evolution of Lexical Priming (LP) theory since its first appearance in the early 2000s. Hoey’s later unpublished work was characterised by his desire that LP theory be tested on discourse-types beyond newspaper texts and in languages other than English. Here, we make a first attempt to test LP theory on Japanese data from a we…
Linguistics (17 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (9 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (5 works)