Collocation, Semantic Prosody, and Near Synonymy: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

By Richard Xiao, Tony McEnery. 2006

320 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. N. Schmitt
2. E. Peters
3. Stuart Webb
4. B. Laufer
5. A. Pellicer‐Sánchez
6. Eve Kagimoto
7. Nany Girsai
8. V. Brezina

In Language and Linguistics

1. N. Schmitt
2. E. Peters
3. Stuart Webb
4. B. Laufer
5. Eve Kagimoto
6. V. Brezina
7. A. Pellicer‐Sánchez
8. Nany Girsai

Citations in the corpus

• The Effects of Vocabulary Learning on Collocation and Meaning. (2009, background): “…been carried out to determine their relationship with other multiword lexical units (Moon, 1997, 1998), their structural and functional properties (Mel’cuk, 1998; Nesselhauf, 2005; Wouden, 1997), and the grammatical and semantic constraints on cooccurrence (Kennedy, 2003; Xiao & McEnery, 2006).”
• Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects (2018, background): “The threshold of 3 is commonly used as indicating a meaningful relationship (Xiao & McEnery, 2006).”
• Formulaic Sequences: Are They Processed More Quickly than Nonformulaic Language by Native and Nonnative Speakers? (2008, background): “Some of the other languages where formulaic sequences have been noted include French (Arnaud and Savignon 1997; Cardey and Greenfield 2002), Spanish (Butler 1997), Italian (Tognini-Bonelli 2002), German (Bahns 1993; Gläser 1998), Swedish (Bolander 1989), Polish (Zabor 1998), Arabic (Farghal and Obi”
• Collocations in context:a new perspective on collocation networks (2015, background): “…in a number of different ways (see Evert 2004, 2008, 2010) and has been explored in a number of different contexts (e.g. Baker et al. 2008, Xiao & McEnery 2006, Syanova * We would like to thank the two anonymous referees for their suggestions that helped us clarify a number of points…”
• Form-focused Instruction in Second Language Vocabulary Learning: A Case for Contrastive Analysis and Translation (2008, background): “Xiao and McEnery (2006) performed a cross-linguistic analysis of collocation, semantic prosody, and near synonymy, drawing upon data from English and Chinese.”