Words and Phrases: Corpus Studies of Lexical Semantics

By M. Stubbs. 2001

764 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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4. Kathy Conklin
5. D. Gardner
6. Mark Davies
7. Ute Römer
8. Caroline Tagg

Citations in the corpus

• Attesting Biases and Discrimination using Language Semantics (2019, background): “Language and culture are closely related [27]: language can be viewed as a verbal expression of culture, and it is known to embed implicit social biases, cultural stereotypes and prejudices [28].”
• Review of Studies on Technology-Enhanced Language Learning and Teaching (2020, background): “It also contains 5000-word samples that adult, educated, professional people use in their daily life, including telephone and face-to-face conversations, discussions, lectures, and radio commentaries [35].”
• Formulaic Sequences: Are They Processed More Quickly than Nonformulaic Language by Native and Nonnative Speakers? (2008, background): “They can often have a type of register marking called semantic/collocational prosody (Stubbs 2002; Sinclair 2004).”
• A corpus linguistics study of SMS text messaging (2009, background): “Differences reported in Tagg (2007) between keywords in CorTxt and COLT suggest that text messaging also differs from the spoken corpus, although a number of the differences are simply due to variant spellings in CorTxt, including u (you), wot, ok, x, im, r (are), ur (you are), and luv (love).”
• Mining large corpora for social information: The case of elderly (2007, background): “What unites all of these studies is the firm belief that connotations are not merely subjective associations that lexical items trigger in individual speakers, but that, like denotation, “connotations are also widely shared within a speech community” (Stubbs 2001:35).”
• The Most Frequently Used Spoken American English Idioms: A Corpus Analysis and Its Implications. (2003, background): “Stubbs, M. (2001). Words and phrases: Corpus studies of lexical semantics.”
• Corpus Research Applications in Second Language Teaching (2011, background): “…& Cortes, 2004; Hoey, 2005; Hunston & Francis, 2000; Meunier & Granger, 2008; Römer, 2009b, 2010; Römer & Schulze, 2009; Sinclair, 1991, 2004d; Stubbs, 2001), so it appears only reasonable to provide learners with a more integrated perspective and offer them a view on the language that…”
• Metaphorical Expressions and Culture: An Indirect Link (2003, background): “Stubbs (2001) suggested that a possible means of tracing speakers’ experience of an entity is to analyze the uses of the lexeme in a large, contemporary corpus (p. 100).”
• Pointing Out Frequent Phrasal Verbs: A Corpus‐Based Analysis (2007, methodology): “Hereafter, we distinguish lemmas from individual types by using all uppercase letters to indicate lemmas (cf. Stubbs, 2002).”