Michael Hoey (24 February 1948 – 10 September 2021) was a British linguist and Baines Professor of English Language. He lectured in applied linguistics in over 40 countries.
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Michael Hoey (linguist) in the context of Word meaning
In linguistics, a word sense is one of the meanings of a word. For example, a dictionary may have over 50 different senses of the word "play", each of these having a different meaning based on the context of the word's usage in a sentence, as follows:
In each sentence different collocates of "play" signal its different meanings.