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Sinclairian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Sinclair + -ian.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to John McHardy Sinclair (1933–2007), British linguist who pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching.
   • 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? 2013, Patrick Hanks, Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations, page 404:

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