Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language by Michael Hoey (Author)

📘 Title Name: Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language
✍️ Author: Michael Hoey
📦 Quality: Black White Pakistan Print

🔹 Introduction:
Michael Hoey’s Lexical Priming introduces a groundbreaking theory that challenges traditional views of how language is structured and used. The book presents language as a product of usage-based patterns formed by individual and collective experiences with words.

🔑  Key Points:

• Offers a new theory of language based on priming effects through exposure and usage.

• Explains how collocation, colligation, and textual repetition influence word choice.

• Argues that grammar emerges from lexis, not the other way around.

• Provides real corpus-based examples from English to support theoretical claims.

• Highlights the psychological and cognitive implications of lexical choices.

🔻 Conclusion:
Lexical Priming reshapes our understanding of language by showing how our repeated exposure to certain word combinations shapes not just usage but thought itself. It's a must-read for students and researchers of linguistics, psycholinguistics, and language teaching.