Lexical Collocations of “EAT” and “WEAR” in American English from 1800 to 2000:A Corpus-Based Study of Sociolinguistics Approach

作     者：Tran Dieu Linh Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy 

作者机构：Wuhan University of Technology—School of Foreign Languages Huazhong University of Science and Technology—School of Foreign Languages 

出 版 物：《外语教育》 (Foreign Language Education)

年 卷 期：2017年第1期

页      面：79-90页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：corpus-based study sociolinguistics verb-noun lexical collocations American English 

摘      要：Collocations transmit cultural and societal meanings and stereotypes which have built up over time;therefore,research of collocations,especially lexical collocations,provides particular insights into *** present study examines verb-noun lexical collocations of eat and wear between 1800 and 2000 through three corpora:Corpus of Historical American English(COHA),Corpus of Contemporary American English(COCA)and Google Books(American).Whilst exploring possible semantic changes in the use of these two verbs,the author seeks for the explanation of the alternative of old collocations and the appearance of new *** is found that there is not much fluctuation in the meaning of eat and wear after two ***,it also reveals that social changes have had great impacts on language changes which can modify or create new collocations in the verbnoun lexical collocation of eat and wear .By means of identifying the syntagmatic and paradigmatic properties of verb-noun lexical collocation of eat and wear ,it is clearly shown that corpus has potential applications in translation studies,language teaching,and other scientific fields.