Seyed Mohammad Hosseini-Maasoum
Volume 4, Issue 7 , September 2013
Abstract
The link between studies in discourse analysis and corpus linguistics has created new fields of research previously unattended. One of these areas is the study of semantic prosody produced through frequent collocation of a lexical item with a collection of words. Semantic prosody is the positive, negative ...
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The link between studies in discourse analysis and corpus linguistics has created new fields of research previously unattended. One of these areas is the study of semantic prosody produced through frequent collocation of a lexical item with a collection of words. Semantic prosody is the positive, negative or neutral shade of meaning which a seemingly neutral word adopts after frequent collocation with positive, negative or neutral words. This is an important concept in corpus linguistics which has recently interested the linguists and attracted their attention. The present paper introduces this concept in Persian for the first time, reviews its applications and provides examples in a corpus of Persian texts. The theoretical framework of this study is based on the contributions of Sinclair (1987) and Louw (1993) and later studies following these two. A number of verbal complexes were searched in the internet in order to compile a corpus of Persian sentences containing these verbs and their collocating words. The results indicated that statistically significant differences can be observed in the semantic prosody of these sample verbs, hence the realisation of semantic prosody patterns in Persian collocations
Shahla Sharifi; Mojtaba Namvar Faragi
Volume 4, Issue 7 , September 2013
Abstract
In different linguistic studies, usually only one type of collocations has been investigated and in the classifications that have been introduced for different types of collocations, just formal and grammatical properties of the words within collocations have been mentioned. This study, for the first ...
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In different linguistic studies, usually only one type of collocations has been investigated and in the classifications that have been introduced for different types of collocations, just formal and grammatical properties of the words within collocations have been mentioned. This study, for the first time, introduces eight criteria such as Pivot word, Feature percolation and separability for defining Persian collocations. Persian collocations are also classified from different points of view such as adjacency, number and type of words and textual and contextual properties of collocating words, in different classes of collocations such as adjacent and nonadjacent collocations, simple and complex collocations, semantic collocations, contextual collocations etc. Regarding different criteria introduced in this paper and considering the size of the linguistic corpus with more than 200 thousand words, the results of this study can be used in different studies on Persian collocations and different types of word combinations. It is also possible to use the achievements of this study in lexicography and teaching special Persian collocations to foreigners learning Persian.
