TY  - JOUR
TT  - A semantic prosody analysis of three synonymous adjective pairs in COCA
AU  - Hu, Hsueh-chao Marcella
PY  - 2015
DA  - December
JF  - Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
PB  - Hacettepe University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1305-578X
SP  - 117
EP  - 131
VL  - 11
IS  - 2
KW  - Semandik prozodi
KW  - eşdizim öğrenme
KW  - eş anlamlı kelime çiftleri
KW  - COCA
KW  - derlem çalışması
N2  - TOver 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.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jlls/issue//405581
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/440737
ER  -