McEnery, T. and Xiao, R. (2004) The use of corpora in the study of collocation and semantic prosody, exemplified through corpus data from English and Mandarin Chinese. 37th BAAL Annual Conference, 9-11 September, Kings College London.

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Abstract

This talk uses English and Chinese corpora to explore translation equivalents in Chinese of words/expressions on which research on semantic prosody had been undertaken in English and seeks to answer such questions as "Are semantic prosodies peculiar to English?", "Are the presence or absence of collocations in a language determined, to a degree, by the language's dependence on word order restrictions?".

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PE English P Language and Literature > PI Oriental languages and literatures
Divisions:	English Language & Literature
Date Deposited:	23 Dec 2010 12:16
URI:	http://repository.edgehill.ac.uk/id/eprint/2095

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