A Corpus-based Analysis of English Near-synonymous Adverbs:Absolutely,Utterly

作     者：XIONG Yang-hua LIU Deng-feng 

作者机构：Wuhan University of TechnologyWuhanChina Central South UniversityChangshaChina 

出 版 物：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》 (文学与艺术研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第12卷第4期

页      码：359-365页

摘      要：The analysis of near-synonyms has always been a difficult point in English *** have been some relevant studies on the analysis of near-synonyms at home and abroad,but the examples are still *** on the Corpus of Contemporary American English(COCA),this paper takes“absolutely”and“utterly”as an example,and makes a comparative analysis from the five aspects of register,collocation,collocation,semantic preference and semantic prosody,aiming to make full use of the corpus in the analysis of English near-synonyms,providing a useful supplement for second language teaching and English *** results show that“absolutely”is more common in spoken language while utterly is more formal;regarding the collocation,both words are more associated with adjectives and verbs;in terms of colligation patterns,“absolutely”have six kinds of grammatical patterns while there are only four grammatical patterns of“utterly”;as for semantic preference,the semantic preference of“utterly”has a wider range than that of“absolutely”;for semantic prosody,“absolutely”have more neutral semantic prosody whereas“utterly”have stronger negative semantic *** case study not only provides enlightenment for English learning and teaching,but also further enriches the corpus linguistics-related research.

主 题 词：corpus near-synonymous adverbs register collocation colligation semantic preference semantic prosody 

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学类] 050201[050201] 05[文学] 

D　O　I：10.17265/2159-5836/2022.04.008

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