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Historical Thesaurus

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ResearcherID: B-1663-2010

Keywords

Semantics, Lexicology, Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, Historical Thesaurus Of English, Stylistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Lexicography, Dictionaries, Metaphor, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, History of Parliament, Popular Fiction, Language and Cultural Heritage, Ontologies

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United Kingdom

Biography

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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Employment (2)

University of Glasgow: Glasgow, GB

(CRIT - ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS)
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University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow: Glasgow, GB

2006 to present | Professor of English Linguistics (English Language & Linguistics)
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Marc Alexander

Professional activities (5)

Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufacturers and Commerce: London, London, GB

Fellow
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Marc Alexander

Royal Historical Society: London, GB

Fellow
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Marc Alexander

Higher Education Academy: York, GB

Fellow
Membership
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Marc Alexander

Dictionaries of the Scots Language: Edinburgh, GB

2018 to present | Convener of the Board of Governors
Invited position
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Marc Alexander

Leverhulme Trust: London, GB

2020 | Philip Leverhulme Prize
Distinction
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Marc Alexander

Funding (10)

Digital Humanities Data Hive: Accessing Humanities Data At Scale

2021-11-01 to 2022-08-30 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.10019272
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/W007584/1
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Marc Alexander via DimensionsWizard

Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection

2021-09-30 to 2024-09-29 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Swindon, GB)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9849292
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/W00321X/1
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Marc Alexander via DimensionsWizard

HeidelGram – Corpus and Network Analysis of the Discourses of English Grammars from 1550 to 1900

2018-01-01 to present | Grant
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Bonn, DE)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.8101916
GRANT_NUMBER: 413172483
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Marc Alexander via DimensionsWizard

Hansard at Huddersfield: making the parliamentary record more accessible

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Marc Alexander via DimensionsWizard

21st Century Reading: Text and Data Mining Skills for Scotland

2018 to present | Grant
Royal Society of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, GB)
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Marc Alexander

The Linguistic DNA of Modern Western Thought: Paradigmatic Terms in English, 1500-1800

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Marc Alexander via DimensionsWizard

Semantic Annotation and Mark Up for Enhancing Lexical Searches (SAMUELS)

2014-01-01 to 2015-03-30 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Swindon, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/L010062/1
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/L010062/1
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Marc Alexander via DimensionsWizard

Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

2012-01-01 to 2015-03-30 | Grant
Arts and Humanities Research Council (Swindon, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/I02266X/1
GRANT_NUMBER: AH/I02266X/1
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Marc Alexander via DimensionsWizard

Parliamentary Discourse

2011 to 2011 | Grant
Joint Information Systems Committee (Bristol, GB)
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Marc Alexander

The Language and the Sentiments of their Times: Teaching the Language of Historical Text

2011 to 2011 | Grant
Higher Education Academy (York, GB)
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Marc Alexander

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Our Heritage, Our Stories: developing AI tools to link and support community-generated digital cultural heritage

Journal of Documentation
2024-09-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1108/JD-03-2024-0057
Contributors: Ewan D. Hannaford; Viktor Schlegel; Rhiannon Lewis; Stefan Ramsden; Jenny Bunn; John Moore; Marc Alexander; Hannah Barker; Riza Batista-Navarro; Lorna Hughes et al.
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Speech in the British Hansard

2023-11-13 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1075/scl.111.01ale
Contributors: Marc Alexander
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“In barbarous times and in uncivilized countries”

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
2022-10-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.22016.ale
Contributors: Marc Alexander; Andrew Struan
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A cognitive and quantitative approach to mathematical concretization

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics
2020 | Book chapter
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/225918/
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Marc Alexander

Lexis

The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities
2020 | Book chapter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003031758-10
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Marc Alexander

The Historical Thesaurus of English, second edition

University of Glasgow
2020 | Book
URI:

http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/192743/
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Marc Alexander

Manipulation in Agatha Christie's detective stories: rhetorical control and cognitive misdirection in creating and solving crime puzzles

Stylistic Manipulation of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction
2019 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.5040/9781350062993.0016
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Marc Alexander

"...all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air": Metaphorical connections in the history of English

Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English
2018 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1075/cilt.343.03ale
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Marc Alexander
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Reliability, unreliability, reader manipulation and plot reversals: strategies for constructing and challenging the credibility of characters in Agatha Christie's detective fiction

Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honor of Michael Toolan
2018 | Book chapter
URI:

http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/168243/
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Marc Alexander

The Language and Sentiments of their Times: Teaching the Language of Eighteenth-Century Text

49th American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Meeting
2018 | Conference paper
URI:

http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/165977/
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Marc Alexander

A time-sensitive historical thesaurus-based semantic tagger for deep semantic annotation

Computer Speech and Language
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2017.04.010
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Marc Alexander

Digital Hansard - Politics and the Uncivil

Digital Humanities 2017, DH 2017, Conference Abstracts, McGill University & Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, August 8-11, 2017
2017 | Conference paper
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Marc Alexander

Linguistic DNA: investigating conceptual change in early modern English discourse

Studia Neophilologica
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/00393274.2017.1333891
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Marc Alexander
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SAMUELS Semantically-Annotated Corpora

2017 | Interactive resource
URI:

http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/227105/
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Marc Alexander

Semantic EEBO

2017 | Interactive resource
URI:

http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/152380/
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Marc Alexander

The Seven Words of the Virgin: Identifying Change in the Discourse Context of the Concept of Virginity in Early Modern English

Digital Humanities 2017
2017 | Other
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/154652/
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Marc Alexander

Reading into the past

2017-12-19 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1075/ahs.7.03fit
Contributors: Susan Fitzmaurice; Justyna A. Robinson; Marc Alexander; Iona C. Hine; Seth Mehl; Fraser Dallachy
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Astronomical names

The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming
2016 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199656431.013.3
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Marc Alexander

Defamiliarisation and foregrounding: representing experiences of change of state and perception in neurological illness autobiographies

The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics
2016 | Book chapter
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Marc Alexander

The metaphorical understanding of power and authority

Mapping English Metaphor Through Time
2016 | Book chapter
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Marc Alexander

Diachronic and synchronic thesauruses

The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography
2015 | Book chapter
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Marc Alexander

Dictionaries

The Oxford Handbook of the Word
2015 | Book chapter
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Marc Alexander

Experiences with parallelisation of an existing NLP pipeline: tagging Hansard

Language Resources and Evaluation
2015 | Journal article
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Marc Alexander

Metaphor Map of English

2015 | Other
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Marc Alexander

Metaphor Map of Old English

2015 | Other
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Marc Alexander

Metaphor, popular science, and semantic tagging: Distant reading with the Historical Thesaurus of English

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqv045
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Marc Alexander

Semantic tagging and early modern collocates

Corpus Linguistics 2015
2015 | Other
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Marc Alexander

Semantic tagging and early modern collocates

The Eighth International Corpus Linguistics Conference (CL2015)
2015 | Journal article
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Marc Alexander

The Hansard Corpus 1803-2005

2015 | Dataset
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Marc Alexander

The Historical Thesaurus Semantic Tagger

2015 | Software
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Marc Alexander

"Civilization arranged in chronological strata": a digital approach to the English semantic space

Digital Humanities 2014
2014 | Other
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Marc Alexander

Defamiliarisation and foregrounding: representing experiences of change of state and perception in neurological illness autobiographies

2014 | Journal article
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Marc Alexander

Developing the Historical Thesaurus Semantic Tagger

The Digital Humanities Congress 2014
2014 | Journal article
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Marc Alexander

Experiences with Parallelisation of an Existing NLP Pipeline: Tagging Hansard

9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
2014 | Other
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Marc Alexander

Foregrounding, burying and plot construction

The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics
2014 | Book chapter
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Marc Alexander

Historical and Synchronic Thesauruses

2014 | Journal article
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Marc Alexander

How can you see 470,000 words?

Babel
2014 | Journal article
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Marc Alexander

Mapping Metaphors of Wealth and Want: A Digital Approach

Studies in the Digital Humanities
2014 | Journal article
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Marc Alexander

Metaphor, popular science and semantic tagging: distant reading with the historical thesaurus of English

Digital Humanities 2014
2014 | Other
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Marc Alexander

Programming Language Feature Agglomeration

Workshop on Programming Language Evolution 2014 (PLE14)
2014 | Other
DOI: 10.1145/2717124.2717128
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Marc Alexander

Schema theory in stylistics

The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics
2014 | Book chapter
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Marc Alexander

Schemata

Handbook of Narratology, 2nd ed.
2014 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110316469.756
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Marc Alexander
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The Spread of RED in the Historical Thesaurus of English

Colour Studies: A Broad Spectrum
2014 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1075/z.191.08ale
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Marc Alexander
grade
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'In countries so unciviliz'd as those?': the language of incivility and the British experience of the world

The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2: Experiencing Imperialism
2013 | Book chapter
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Marc Alexander

Rhetorical control of readers' attention: psychological and stylistic perspectives on foreground and background in narrative

Stories and Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Literary Narrative
2013 | Book chapter
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Marc Alexander

A digital approach to sound symbolism in English: evidence from the historical thesaurus

Digital Humanities 2012
2012 | Other
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Marc Alexander

Patchworks and Field-Boundaries: Visualizing the History of English

Digital Humanities 2012
2012 | Other
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Marc Alexander

The Hansard Corpus, 1803-2003

2012 | Interactive resource
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Marc Alexander

Data mining and search enhancements using the Historical Thesaurus of English

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Search and Mining Entity-relationship Data
2011 | Other
DOI: 10.1145/2064988.2065000
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Marc Alexander

Enroller: a grid-based research platform for English and Scots language

Digital Humanities 2011
2011 | Other
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Marc Alexander
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