Welcome to Professor Michael Hoey’s Talks
Talk 1
Topic: Where Will Post-Sinclair Corpus Studies Lead Us?
Time: 13:30-15:00, 18 June 2012
Venue: Hall 2, New Mail Building, Beihang Univerity (北航新主楼第二报告厅)
Sketch of Professor Michael Hoey：
Michael Hoey, Baines Professor of English Language, and pro-vice Chancellor of University of Liverpool, is an outstanding British linguist, corpus linguist and applied linguist,
Professor Hoey has authored a number of books on linguistics including Signalling in Discourse (1979), On the Surface of Discourse (1983), Patterns of Lexis in Text (1991) (which was awarded the Duke of Edinburgh English-Speaking Union Prize for the best book on Applied Linguistics in 1991), Textual Interaction (2001) and Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language (2005), which proposes a new way of looking at language based on evidence from corpus linguistics. It was shortlisted for best book in applied linguistics by the British Association for Applied Linguistics and described as being "a must for anyone involved in corpus linguistics or with an interest in what shapes the way we use and understand words".
Professor Hoey has also published a prodigious number of research papers.
Talk 2
Topic: Lexical Priming and the Properties of Text
Speaker: Prof. Michael Hoey
Venue: 308, National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, BFSU （北京外国语大学中国外语教育研究中心）
Time: 14:00-15:30, 19 June, 2012
Talk 1
Topic: Where Will Post-Sinclair Corpus Studies Lead Us?
Time: 13:30-15:00, 18 June 2012
Venue: Hall 2, New Mail Building, Beihang Univerity (北航新主楼第二报告厅)
Sketch of Professor Michael Hoey：
Michael Hoey, Baines Professor of English Language, and pro-vice Chancellor of University of Liverpool, is an outstanding British linguist, corpus linguist and applied linguist,
Professor Hoey has authored a number of books on linguistics including Signalling in Discourse (1979), On the Surface of Discourse (1983), Patterns of Lexis in Text (1991) (which was awarded the Duke of Edinburgh English-Speaking Union Prize for the best book on Applied Linguistics in 1991), Textual Interaction (2001) and Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language (2005), which proposes a new way of looking at language based on evidence from corpus linguistics. It was shortlisted for best book in applied linguistics by the British Association for Applied Linguistics and described as being "a must for anyone involved in corpus linguistics or with an interest in what shapes the way we use and understand words".
Professor Hoey has also published a prodigious number of research papers.
Talk 2
Topic: Lexical Priming and the Properties of Text
Speaker: Prof. Michael Hoey
Venue: 308, National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, BFSU （北京外国语大学中国外语教育研究中心）
Time: 14:00-15:30, 19 June, 2012