A Corpus-based Vocabulary Analysis of Near Synonyms:bring about and give rise to
A Corpus-based Vocabulary Analysis of Near Synonyms:bring about and give rise to作者机构:北京交通大学语言与传播学院
出 版 物:《英语广场(学术研究)》 (English Square)
年 卷 期:2015年第4期
页 面:12-16页
学科分类:0303[法学-社会学] 0501[文学-中国语言文学] 050102[文学-语言学及应用语言学] 03[法学] 030303[法学-人类学] 05[文学]
主 题:near synonyms semantic prosody bring about give rise to cause transfer of negative prosody
摘 要:Distinguishing the meanings of near synonyms always seems to be a challenging task for Chinese EFL learners,as is the case with bring about and give rise to be exemplified in the paper.I will use a corpus approach to unveil some implied semantic patterns and pragmatic features of the two phrases,and generalize their semantic prosodies as used by native English speakers by analyzing what kinds of nouns tend to co-occur with them,and also discuss whether there is a transfer of negative semantic prosody from the word cause to the two phrases under discussion.