English get-passives: reassessing the frequencies across genres
This study investigates the get-passive in American English, with emphasis on its distribution in different text types and its semantic features characterized by co-occurring verbs. The data was drawn from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), i.e. the latest version with eight diff...
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| description | This study investigates the get-passive in American English, with emphasis on its distribution
in different text types and its semantic features characterized by co-occurring verbs. The data
was drawn from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), i.e. the latest version
with eight different genres. The findings indicate that the get-passive is a linguistic feature of
informal English due to its highest frequency in spoken genres, e.g. TV and movie subtitles,
and blogs. Furthermore, common verbs constituting the get-passive were explored and their
meanings in context were analyzed. In agreement with previous studies, the semantic analysis
of get-passives revealed a higher proportion of verbs expressing adversity, followed by those
with positive and neutral meanings, respectively. The existence of non-adversative get-passive
predicts a decline in the adversative type. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:157252020-11-18T06:48:28Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15725/ English get-passives: reassessing the frequencies across genres Supakorn Phoocharoensil, This study investigates the get-passive in American English, with emphasis on its distribution in different text types and its semantic features characterized by co-occurring verbs. The data was drawn from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), i.e. the latest version with eight different genres. The findings indicate that the get-passive is a linguistic feature of informal English due to its highest frequency in spoken genres, e.g. TV and movie subtitles, and blogs. Furthermore, common verbs constituting the get-passive were explored and their meanings in context were analyzed. In agreement with previous studies, the semantic analysis of get-passives revealed a higher proportion of verbs expressing adversity, followed by those with positive and neutral meanings, respectively. The existence of non-adversative get-passive predicts a decline in the adversative type. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15725/1/39335-135009-1-PB.pdf Supakorn Phoocharoensil, (2020) English get-passives: reassessing the frequencies across genres. GEMA ; Online Journal of Language Studies, 20 (3). pp. 123-135. ISSN 1675-8021 http://ejournals.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1304 |
| spellingShingle | Supakorn Phoocharoensil, English get-passives: reassessing the frequencies across genres |
| title | English get-passives: reassessing the frequencies across genres |
| title_full | English get-passives: reassessing the frequencies across genres |
| title_fullStr | English get-passives: reassessing the frequencies across genres |
| title_full_unstemmed | English get-passives: reassessing the frequencies across genres |
| title_short | English get-passives: reassessing the frequencies across genres |
| title_sort | english get-passives: reassessing the frequencies across genres |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15725/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15725/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15725/1/39335-135009-1-PB.pdf |