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0000-0002-6337-2632 About
Marc Alexander is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Historical Thesaurus of English. He works primarily on the study of meaning in English, with a focus on lexicology, semantics, and stylistics through cognitive and corpus linguistics. His publications are on a range of topics in the linguistics of English, generally using the Historical Thesaurus, and he has written on metaphorical construction, historical semantics, parliamentary discourse, corpus research infrastructures, colour terms across the history of English, and psycholinguistic manipulation in detective fiction.
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University of Glasgow
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Publications (80)
- Our Heritage, Our Stories: developing AI tools to link and support community-generated digital cultural heritage Save
- Speech in the British Hansard Save
- “In barbarous times and in uncivilized countries” Save
- A cognitive and quantitative approach to mathematical concretization Save
- Lexis Save
- The Historical Thesaurus of English, second edition Save
- Manipulation in Agatha Christie's detective stories: rhetorical control and cognitive misdirection in creating and solving crime puzzles Save
- The Language and Sentiments of their Times: Teaching the Language of Eighteenth-Century Text Save
- Reliability, unreliability, reader manipulation and plot reversals: strategies for constructing and challenging the credibility of characters in Agatha Christie's detective fiction Save
- "...all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air": Metaphorical connections in the history of English Save