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Sinclairian
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English
Etymology
From en Sinclair ian.
Adjective
Of or relating to John McHardy Sinclair (1933–2007), British linguist who pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching.
en Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations 404 Patrick Hanks 2013 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?
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