Remembering Michael Hoey's work

Prof. Michael Hoey was one of Britain’s leading academic linguists and language theorists who made transformative contributions in the areas of text and discourse analysis, and in ‘Big Data’ - that is, corpus-based - lexicology and dictionary-building. Michael Hoey was the Emeritus ‘Baines’ Professor of English Language at the University of Liverpool since 1993, he was an academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, a member of Council at the University of Chester and a member of the West Midlands Arts Council. His applied linguistic research led to his lecturing in over 40 countries. His work Patterns of Lexis in Text (1991) won the Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union Award for best book in applied linguistics and Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language (2005) was shortlisted for best book in applied linguistics by the British Association of Applied Linguistics. He was Chief Adviser on the Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, and was frequently consulted by journalists for his opinion on controversial neologisms appearing in dictionaries.