List of Tables, List of Figures, Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, Typographical Conventions, Introduction (0.1 A primary outline of research aims, or: what is this book about?;
0.2 Materials and methodology), Chapter 1: Hoey’s original Lexical Priming theory, 2005 (1.1 What makes Lexical Priming a theory of language?;
1.2 The principal hypotheses;
1.3 The implications of Lexical Priming theory;
1.4 Language acquisition and performance;
1.5 Lexical Priming and meaning;
1.6 Lexical Priming, grammar, syntax and phraseology;
1.7 Lexical Priming and creativity;
1.8 Conclusion), Chapter 2: The Evolution of LP theory from 2005 to today (2.1 Introduction: from 2005 to now;
2.2 Lexical Priming in a corpus of a spoken discourse-type;
2.3 Lexical Priming: Applications and Advances, 2017;
2.4 Forced Lexical Priming;
2.5 Conclusion), Chapter 3: Data, methods and tools (3.1 Introduction;
3.2 Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies (CaDS);
3.3 The data (3.3.1 The Hoey data;
3.3.2 Our corpus data in English;
3.3.3 Our corpus data in Japanese;
3.3.4 The Yahoo! Chiebukuro data corpus;
3.3.5 Data sampling;
3.3.6 Data annotation);
3.4 Conclusion), Chapter 4: LP and grammar (4.1 Introduction;
4.2 Grammatical ‘categories’ (4.2.1 Grammatical categories in English;
4.2.2 Grammatical categories in Japanese;
4.2.3 Grammatical categories in Hoey’s work);
4.3 What is a ‘word’?;
4.4 Colligational primings (4.4.1 Colligational primings in Japanese;
4.4.2 The colligational primings of handan ‘judgement, decision’);
4.5 Conclusion), Chapter 5: Lexical Priming and polysemy (5.1 Introduction;
5.2 Nesting, polysemy and ‘drinking problems’;
5.3 Polysemy in Japanese: the case of amai ‘sweet/permissive’;
5.4 Conclusion), Chapter 6: Evaluation in English at the lexical and clausal levels (6.1 Whatever happened to evaluative primings?;
6.2 The pervasive role of evaluation in communication;
6.3 Evaluation in English: from simplicity to complexity (6.3.1 Evaluation in English at the lexical level;
6.3.2 Evaluation in English at the clausal level;
6.3.3 Evaluative embedding);
6.4 Conclusion), Chapter 7: Evaluation in Japanese discourses at the lexical and clausal levels (7.1 Evaluation in Japanese at the collocational level;
7.2 Evaluation in Japanese at the clausal level;
7.3 Conclusion), Chapter 8: Evaluative cohesion in whole texts (8.1 Introduction;
8.2 Propositional textual cohesion in Hoey 2005;
8.3 Evaluative textual cohesion;
8.4 Switching evaluations: from positive to negative and back again;
8.5 The evaluative cohesion of complete texts (8.5.1 Textual organisation by evaluation in English;
8.5.2 Textual organisation by evaluation in Japanese);
8.6 Conclusion), Chapter 9: Lexical Priming and the systems of modality (9.1 Modality in modern standard English grammar;
9.2 Modality in English and Lexical Priming theory;
9.3 A pause for summarising: What then is a ‘clause’ or ‘sentence’? Proposition, evaluation and modal stance;
9.4 Modality in Japanese;
9.5 Modality in the Relationship corpus (9.5.1 Textual primings of kamoshiremasen and -te shimaimashita;
9.5.2 Modality and evaluative cohesion in Japanese);
9.6 Conclusion), Chapter 10: Lexical Priming and im/politeness (10.1 Introduction;
10.2 From evaluation to im/politeness (10.2.1 Brown and Levinson (1987);
10.2.2 Criticisms of Brown and Levinson;
10.2.3 A potential Neo-Brown and Levinson approach);
10.3 Face-work: where priming combines with inferencing;
10.4 Politeness primings in Japanese: the case of apologies (10.4.1 Does su(m)imasen ‘sorry’ have (a) a colligation preference to occur with the conditional clause; and (b) a semantic preference to remedy minor offences?;
10.4.2 Does su(m)imasen ‘sorry’ have a textual colligational preference to occur in specific textual positions?);
10.5 Overriding of politeness primings in Japanese (10.5.1 Written laughter;
10.5.2 Go-kur?);
10.6 Conclusion), Chapter 11: Lexical Priming in interactive Question-and-Response discourse-types (11.1 Introduction;
11.2 A few more words on Yahoo! Chiebukuro;
11.3 Another Question-and-Response discourse-type: press briefings;
11.4 Comparing and contrasting questions and responses in Japanese (11.4.1 Comparing and contrasting Questions and Responses using n-grams;
11.4.2 Returning to evaluation and textual organisation);
11.5 Conclusion), Chapter 12: Lexical Priming and linguistic variation (12.1 Introduction;
12.2 The challenges of comparison;
12.3 Comparing the Relationship and News corpora through keywords;
12.4 Investigating similarities (12.4.1 Revisiting Lexical Priming and modality);
12.5 Conclusion), Chapter 13: A Round-up and a Request