We begin by examining what absence might mean in a linguistic sense and distinguish among different varieties of absences, for instance, ‘known absence’ compared with ‘unknown absence’, absence from a sizeable corpus, from a limited set of texts or from a position in a single text, relative absence and absolute absence, and absence defined as ‘hidden from open view’, that is, hidden meaning.
This is followed by an examination of how corpus linguistics has been able to address each of these kinds of absences and indeed, on occasion, is shown to be the only means by which certain absences could be examined. We demonstrate too how certain concepts arising from corpus linguistics, in particular evaluative (semantic) prosody and lexical priming, are extremely relevant to research into absence. Overall, we show how corpus techniques are invaluable in not only locating absence but in identifying types of absence, in quantifying it and even in assisting the researcher to evaluate the relevance of absences.Michaels, Alan. Suffix obsession : a dictionary of all words ending in annual, ennial, anthropy, archy, cracy, cide, culture, gamy, gon, hedron, lagnia, latry, theism, logue, loquy, machy, mancy, mania, nym, phagus, vorous, phany, philia, and phobia / by Alan Michaels McFarland Jefferson, N.C 1993 Australian/Harvard Citation Suffix obsession : a dictionary of all words ending in annual, ennial, anthropy, archy, cracy, cide, culture, gamy, gon, hedron, lagnia, latry, theism, logue, loquy, machy, mancy, mania, nym, phagus, vorous, phany, philia, and phobia.
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