Swearing constitutes an important part of daily language use. However, despite several previous studies with foci on the social and cultural characteristics of swearwords, a large part of it remains to be investigated...Swearing constitutes an important part of daily language use. However, despite several previous studies with foci on the social and cultural characteristics of swearwords, a large part of it remains to be investigated. With the abundant spoken language resources from British National Corpus(BNC), this article observes the pragmatic and collocational features of swearwords. Three social variables, namely, social class, speech domain, and gender were put under investigation to see how the use of swearwords varies with different speech social contexts. Meanwhile, the noun and adjective collocates of several frequent swearwords were separately sorted out and discussed. The data observed show that the use of swearwords is highly related to different social contexts, and there exits certain level of differentiation between different swearwords used as intensifiers which can be generalized lexicographically.展开更多
目前,许多语言学家对词语搭配的研究证明,词语搭配在语言习得中具有非常重要的作用,但中国学生在使用词语搭配时经常出现错误搭配的情况,因此本论文运用英国国家语料库(BNC:British National Corpus)和中国英语学习者语料库(CLEC:Chines...目前,许多语言学家对词语搭配的研究证明,词语搭配在语言习得中具有非常重要的作用,但中国学生在使用词语搭配时经常出现错误搭配的情况,因此本论文运用英国国家语料库(BNC:British National Corpus)和中国英语学习者语料库(CLEC:Chinese Learner English Corpus)对动词commit+名词(名词为直接宾语)搭配特点进行对比分析。研究结果显示:中国学生对commit表达"犯(罪),做(错事)"这一语义比较熟悉,并能正确使用,但并不掌握commit后可以接表示中性意义名词。在BNC中,commit后接名词宾语有多个,而在CLEC中却很匮乏。展开更多
基金Key Research Project of the Social Sciences and Humanities of Shanghai International Studies University,China(No.2018114027)
文摘Swearing constitutes an important part of daily language use. However, despite several previous studies with foci on the social and cultural characteristics of swearwords, a large part of it remains to be investigated. With the abundant spoken language resources from British National Corpus(BNC), this article observes the pragmatic and collocational features of swearwords. Three social variables, namely, social class, speech domain, and gender were put under investigation to see how the use of swearwords varies with different speech social contexts. Meanwhile, the noun and adjective collocates of several frequent swearwords were separately sorted out and discussed. The data observed show that the use of swearwords is highly related to different social contexts, and there exits certain level of differentiation between different swearwords used as intensifiers which can be generalized lexicographically.
文摘目前,许多语言学家对词语搭配的研究证明,词语搭配在语言习得中具有非常重要的作用,但中国学生在使用词语搭配时经常出现错误搭配的情况,因此本论文运用英国国家语料库(BNC:British National Corpus)和中国英语学习者语料库(CLEC:Chinese Learner English Corpus)对动词commit+名词(名词为直接宾语)搭配特点进行对比分析。研究结果显示:中国学生对commit表达"犯(罪),做(错事)"这一语义比较熟悉,并能正确使用,但并不掌握commit后可以接表示中性意义名词。在BNC中,commit后接名词宾语有多个,而在CLEC中却很匮乏。
