 Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:24 am Discussing semantic prosody/ies |
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Are the the concept and the arguments for semantic prosody/ies unconvincing?
Background:
The concept of semantic prosody was introduced to the public by Bill Louw in 1993, and has become one of the more important concepts in corpus linguistics. However, while other concepts such as collocation, colligation and semantic preference are relatively unproblematic, one cannot say the same for semantic prosody. At present, it is defined in at least three, distinctly different ways, and more significantly, these differences remain largely undiscussed. This article offers a detailed analysis of Louw's concept of semantic prosody (in Sections 1 through 3), and hopes to demonstrate that the concept and the arguments for it are unconvincing.
http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2275470
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http://www.revue-texto.net/docannexe/file/124/louw_prosodie.pdf
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http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~anatol/docs/corp_sempros.pdf |
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Molly
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