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"What Do You Know about Semantic Prosody?" Teaching and Evaluating Implicit Knowledge of English with Corpus-Assisted Methods
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Zhang, Hong – English in Education, 2021
The meaning of words can be influenced by their co-occurrences. Semantic prosody (SP) is attitudinal and evaluative meaning inferred from the habitual lexical environment of a word in a corpus. By introducing SP in an English teaching classroom, teachers can reveal more implicit knowledge about language usage and assist students in reaching…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Usage, Computational Linguistics, Intonation