Sinclairian
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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?"
Example
More examples"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?"
Etymology
From Sinclair + -ian.