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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Discussing semantic prosody/ies
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."
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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)
Top answer
No. It seems absolutely correct that some words carry negative connotations because of their common collocations. It seems an obvious concept, more descriptive and factual than an opinion.
- No.
- It seems absolutely correct that some words carry negative connotations because of their common collocations.
- It seems an obvious concept, more descriptive and factual than an opinion.
- What is an alternate view?
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No. It seems absolutely correct that some words carry negative connotations because of their common collocations. It seems an obvious concept, more descriptive and factual than an opinion.
What is an alternate view?
What is an alternate view?
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