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semantic prosody: a standalone construct

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Corpus linguistics

the evaluative coloring a word acquires from the words it habitually co-occurs with, such as set in usually preceding unpleasant things.

In corpus linguistics, semantic prosody refers to the evaluative coloring a word acquires from the words it habitually co-occurs with, such as set in usually preceding unpleasant things. This meaning comes from Louw (1993) in Text and Technology.[1]

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corpus1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct prosody3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs semantic preference1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Louw, B. (1993). Irony in the Text or Insincerity in the Writer?: The Diagnostic Potential of Semantic Prosodies. In Text and Technology (pp. 157-176). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/z.64.11lou

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