Semantic preference, prosody and distribution of synonymous adjectives in COCA
Synonymous word pairs often become an obstacle on the road to favourable result in composing academic texts because semantic prosody and semantic preference of these words are neglected. The current study examined the concordance lines with synonymous adjectives succinct & concise, coherent &...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2020
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15718/1/37435-134983-1-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15718/ http://ejournals.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1304 |
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| Summary: | Synonymous word pairs often become an obstacle on the road to favourable result in
composing academic texts because semantic prosody and semantic preference of these words
are neglected. The current study examined the concordance lines with synonymous adjectives
succinct & concise, coherent & cohesive, precise & accurate in the academic texts of Corpus
of Contemporary American English (COCA) and identified semantics of co-occurring
collocates, interchangeability of synonyms and their distribution across nine academic
disciplines. The research describes the semantic arrangement of collocations with synonymous
pairs of words and encourages persons with academic pursuits rely on corpus data based tools
to improve knowledge of semantic prosody and preference of words with similar meanings.
The study showed that near synonyms succinct & concise, coherent & cohesive, precise &
accurate have different semantic preference and distribution across registers which should be
taken into consideration while building collocations with these words. However, semantic
prosody tendencies of these synonyms are similar. The analysed synonyms cannot be used
interchangeably in all contexts. They are also unevenly scattered across registers. The current
study will help to improve learning, teaching, and research of English academic vocabulary in
its many contexts. |
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