Semantic prosody [ a critical evaluation
Presents a full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexical environment. This work discusses the relevance of the theory of priming in this area, and whether semantic prosody has cogency as a theoretical concept
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledg ,
c2010
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| Series: | Routledge advances in corpus linguistics
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Features of Semantic Prosody
- 2. The Evaluative and the Hidden
- 3. The Diachronic and the Synchronic
- 4. Semantic Prosody and Lexical Environment
- 5. Semantic Prosody and Corpus Data
- 6. Semantic Prosody and the Concordance
- 7. Intuition, Introspection and Corpus Data 8. Semantic Prosody and Lexical Priming Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index