A Semantic Prosody Analysis of Three Adjective Synonymous Pairs in COCA

Autor/in	Hu, H. C. Marcella
Titel	A Semantic Prosody Analysis of Three Adjective Synonymous Pairs in COCA
Quelle	In: Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 11 (2015) 2, S.117-131 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1305-578X
Schlagwörter	Semantics; Intonation; Suprasegmentals; Form Classes (Languages); Pragmatics; Language Research; Phrase Structure; Computational Linguistics; Comparative Analysis; Preferences; North American English; Academic Discourse + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Semantik; Analytischer Sprachbau; Pragmalinguistik; Sprachforschung; Phrasenstruktur; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Amerikanisches Englisch; Discourse; Diskurs
Abstract	Over the past two decades the concept of semantic prosody has attracted considerable research interest since Sinclair (1991) observed that "many uses of words and phrases show a tendency to occur in a certain semantic environment" (p. 112). Sinclair (2003) also noted that semantic prosody conveys its pragmatic meaning and attitudinal meaning. As the first scholar introducing the term "semantic prosody," Louw (1993) claimed that the habitual collocates of a lexical item is established through the semantic consistency of its subjects. Semantic prosody has thus been closely related to collocation learning in language acquisition research. In the context of collocation learning, near-synonyms particularly pose a difficulty for most foreign language learners due to their similar denotational meanings but un-interchangeable semantic prosody (Xiao & McEnery, 2006). The present corpus-based study was designed to compare the semantic preference and semantic prosody with three synonymous adjective pairs picked up from the academic core words in COCA (Gardner & Davies, 2013). The pairs were chosen based on the following criteria: a) their meanings were checked against Collins Thesaurus Online; b) the words with more than one meaning were removed; c) the word with more than one part of speech was defined the same as its paired word. All occurrences were examined manually at the span of 4 words to both the left and right. Discussion and implications were reported. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. Hacettepe Universitesi, Egitim Fakultesi B Blok, Yabanci Diller Egitimi Bolumu, Ingiliz Dili Egitimi Anabilim Dali, Ankara 06800, Turkey. e-mail: jllsturkey@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.jlls.org
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Update	2020/1/01