Sinclairian
English
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[edit]Sinclairian (comparative more Sinclairian, superlative most Sinclairian)
- Of or relating to John McHardy Sinclair (1933–2007), British linguist who pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching.
- 2013, Patrick Hanks, Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations, page 404:
- Romer (2008) uses a Sinclairian approach to corpus analysis in order to identify positive and negative evaluations in texts such as book reviews: how can we find out quickly and reliably (and preferably automatically, by computer program) whether a reviewer thinks a book is worth bothering with?