Michael Thomas Leonce Pace-Sigge

BA Joint Hons English and German 1997; MA Directed Research, Lenition in Scouse voiceless plosives, 2003; PhD, Lexical Priming  in Spoken English, 2010 (University of Liverpool).

‘Assessment of scientific proposals expert’, for ANEP (the Ministry of Science, Spain). Assistant editor of Journal of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (JCADS).

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5164-5242

Michael Pace-Sigge initially worked as university teacher at the University of Liverpool, UK from 2005 – 2012 and as  university teacher at Liverpool Hope University 2007-08. In 2012 he was appointed Senior Lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland, where he continues to teach and do research. Beyond that, he has taught during Erasmus exchanges in Estonia, Italy, Lithuania, Spain, and Ukraine. Starting with an interest in Scouse (the accent of Liverpool) he moved from a phonetics MA to a corpus linguistics PhD. His particular interest lies in the Lexical Priming Theory (as can be seen by his 2013 and 2017 books). He also keeps finding further applications for corpus linguistics (as the 2015, 2018 and 2020 books attest). Of late, his interest has shifted to language applications in AI and Paul Hopper’s Emergent Grammar research.

Main publisher: Palgrave Macmillan. Also published with John Benjamins and Elsevier.

Link to the Pathways to Textuality, symposium in Honour of Michael Hoey Symposium:                                             https://sites.uef.fi/pathwaystotextualitysymposium/

Select bibliography:

• Linked Noun Groups. Opposition and Expansion as Genre and Style Markers. 2020. Abingdon: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Spreading Activation, Lexical Priming and the Semantic Web. 2018. Abingdon: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Lexical Priming – Applications and Advances. 2017. Co-edited with K. J. Patterson Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Murphy, S., Culpeper, J., Gillings, M., & Pace-Sigge, M. 2020. What do students find difficult when they read Shakespeare? Problems and solutions. Language and Literature, 29(3), 302-326.
• A case study on some frequent concepts in works of poetry. 2019. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science Vol. 5.1, pp. 122-151.