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Semantic Prosody
A Critical Evaluation
Series: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
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...
Published October 6th 2009 by Routledge