This study focuses on the semantic prosody of Chinese light verbs"Nong"and"Gao". Although both of them have thesame grammatical function as light verbs, they are distributed differently in contexts...This study focuses on the semantic prosody of Chinese light verbs"Nong"and"Gao". Although both of them have thesame grammatical function as light verbs, they are distributed differently in contexts. The current study proposes that"Nong"and"Gao"are different in semantic prosody, in which the former tend to appear in negative constructions while the later denotes posi-tive meaning. This paper is going to contrast the their performances by corpus searching.展开更多
This paper investigates Chinese EFL learners＇ acquisition of completely, totally and absolutely through a contrastive analysis of their collocation, colligation, semantic preference and semantic prosody based on the ...This paper investigates Chinese EFL learners＇ acquisition of completely, totally and absolutely through a contrastive analysis of their collocation, colligation, semantic preference and semantic prosody based on the Ten-thousand English Compositions of Chinese Learners （TECCL Corpus） and Corpus of Contemporary American English （COCA）. The results show that adjective and verb are two major words frequently co-occurring with the group of synonyms, but only a few of them meet the default collocation criterion （frequency〉3, MI〉3）, and many co-occurring words used by Chinese learners don＇t appear in COCA. Besides, the co-occurring adjectives and verbs in TECCL are so diverse that they don＇t establish fixed semantic relations as in COCA, therefore, there is a big difference in semantic preference and semantic prosody between Chinese learners and native speakers. With the advance of English proficiency, more collocates are used by college learners than middle school learners, but there is no clear and significant improvement in semantic preference and semantic prosody.展开更多
The analysis of near-synonyms has always been a difficult point in English learning.There have been some relevant studies on the analysis of near-synonyms at home and abroad,but the examples are still insufficient.Bas...The analysis of near-synonyms has always been a difficult point in English learning.There have been some relevant studies on the analysis of near-synonyms at home and abroad,but the examples are still insufficient.Based on the Corpus of Contemporary American English(COCA),this paper takes“absolutely”and“utterly”as an example,and makes a comparative analysis from the five aspects of register,collocation,collocation,semantic preference and semantic prosody,aiming to make full use of the corpus in the analysis of English near-synonyms,providing a useful supplement for second language teaching and English learning.The results show that“absolutely”is more common in spoken language while utterly is more formal;regarding the collocation,both words are more associated with adjectives and verbs;in terms of colligation patterns,“absolutely”have six kinds of grammatical patterns while there are only four grammatical patterns of“utterly”;as for semantic preference,the semantic preference of“utterly”has a wider range than that of“absolutely”;for semantic prosody,“absolutely”have more neutral semantic prosody whereas“utterly”have stronger negative semantic prosody.This case study not only provides enlightenment for English learning and teaching,but also further enriches the corpus linguistics-related research.展开更多
文摘This study focuses on the semantic prosody of Chinese light verbs"Nong"and"Gao". Although both of them have thesame grammatical function as light verbs, they are distributed differently in contexts. The current study proposes that"Nong"and"Gao"are different in semantic prosody, in which the former tend to appear in negative constructions while the later denotes posi-tive meaning. This paper is going to contrast the their performances by corpus searching.
文摘This paper investigates Chinese EFL learners＇ acquisition of completely, totally and absolutely through a contrastive analysis of their collocation, colligation, semantic preference and semantic prosody based on the Ten-thousand English Compositions of Chinese Learners （TECCL Corpus） and Corpus of Contemporary American English （COCA）. The results show that adjective and verb are two major words frequently co-occurring with the group of synonyms, but only a few of them meet the default collocation criterion （frequency〉3, MI〉3）, and many co-occurring words used by Chinese learners don＇t appear in COCA. Besides, the co-occurring adjectives and verbs in TECCL are so diverse that they don＇t establish fixed semantic relations as in COCA, therefore, there is a big difference in semantic preference and semantic prosody between Chinese learners and native speakers. With the advance of English proficiency, more collocates are used by college learners than middle school learners, but there is no clear and significant improvement in semantic preference and semantic prosody.
文摘The analysis of near-synonyms has always been a difficult point in English learning.There have been some relevant studies on the analysis of near-synonyms at home and abroad,but the examples are still insufficient.Based on the Corpus of Contemporary American English(COCA),this paper takes“absolutely”and“utterly”as an example,and makes a comparative analysis from the five aspects of register,collocation,collocation,semantic preference and semantic prosody,aiming to make full use of the corpus in the analysis of English near-synonyms,providing a useful supplement for second language teaching and English learning.The results show that“absolutely”is more common in spoken language while utterly is more formal;regarding the collocation,both words are more associated with adjectives and verbs;in terms of colligation patterns,“absolutely”have six kinds of grammatical patterns while there are only four grammatical patterns of“utterly”;as for semantic preference,the semantic preference of“utterly”has a wider range than that of“absolutely”;for semantic prosody,“absolutely”have more neutral semantic prosody whereas“utterly”have stronger negative semantic prosody.This case study not only provides enlightenment for English learning and teaching,but also further enriches the corpus linguistics-related research.
