192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Semantic Prosody is the first full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexical environment. For example, it has been claimed that the adverb 'utterly' is characterised by an unfavourable semantic prosody on account of its habitual co-occurrence with words denoting unfavourable states of affairs such as 'ridiculous',... Read more
Introduction 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 9. Conclusions
Biography
Dominic Stewart is Associate Professor of English Language and Italian-English translation at the University of Macerata, Italy
