DOI: 10.5176/2345-7163_1.1.14
Authors: Meixia Li and Bin Wang
Abstract:
In our previous studies, we have done some research on semantic prosodies of 13 English logical resultative formulae from a global perspective. Yet, the correlation between semantic prosodies of 13 English logical resultative formulae and genres has not been touched upon. So in the present article, based upon the analysis of large corpus, we attempt to study the correlation between semantic prosodies of 13 English logical resultative formulae and genres. The study discovers that: first, to a certain extent there is a correlation between the semantic prosodies of 13 English logical resultative formulae and five genres; second, in different genres, the same English logical resultative formulae may have different semantic prosodies; third, the dominating semantic prosody tendency in one genre is not just one kind of semantic prosody, rather a group of two or three kinds of semantic prosody
Keywords: English logical resultative formulae, semantic prosody, genres, correlation
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