Corpus-Based Approach to Explore the Semantic Prosody of Synonym:A Case Study of“Lead to”and“Result in”

• 作者: ZHANG Le ZHOU Qin
• 来源期刊: 美中外语:英文版
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: semantic prosody corpus linguistics SYNONYM
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（8）
• 页码范围: 247-252
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

Semantic prosody has been one of the most important topics in corpus linguistics.Synonyms are difficult for English learners to learn.Traditional teaching methods mostly distinguish them in terms of their meaning,not their usage.This study uses a corpus-based approach to illustrate how to distinguish and employ the synonyms.This study uses the British Academic Written English(BAWE)Corpus,and chooses“lead to”and“result in”to explore their usage from the perspective and semantic prosody.The approach can help learners to understand and use those words or phrases with the same or similar meanings.