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Meaning of Sinclairian | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Of or relating to John McHardy Sinclair (1933–2007), British linguist who pioneered work in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, lexicography, and language teaching.

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?”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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