"Utterly content in each other's company": Semantic prosody and semantic preference

By A. Partington. 2004

331 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Language and Linguistics

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1. Richard Xiao
2. Tony McEnery
3. Hongyin Tao
4. Gerlinde Mautner

Citations in the corpus

• Collocation, Semantic Prosody, and Near Synonymy: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (2006, background): “While semantic prosody 'dictates the general environment which constrains the preferential choices of the node item', semantic preference 'contributes powerfully' to building semantic prosody (Partington 2004: 151).”
• A Corpus-Based Sociolinguistic Study of Amplifiers in British English (2007, background): “…English of young New Zealanders; Kennedy (2003) examines the collocations of amplifiers in the context of language pedagogy; similarly, Recski (2004) compares collocations of intensifiers in written and spoken academic English while Partington (2004) compares the semantic preferences of maximizers.”
• Mining large corpora for social information: The case of elderly (2007, methodology): “This serves to counteract the charge that individual texts have been cherry-picked to suit the researcher’s own political agenda (Koller & Mautner 2004:225; Partington 2004b:13; Orpin 2005:38).”