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<DIV>Dear Mai,</DIV>
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<DIV>Probably the most striking case of where intuition may go wrong (or so it
has been claimed in the literature) and where corpora are particularly good is
'semantic prosody', a concept which refers to "<SPAN lang=EN-GB
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face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>a consistent aura of meaning with which a form
is imbued by its collocates” (Louw 1993: 157; for a critical review of the
concept and more relevant refs see Hunston 2008). <SPAN lang=EN-GB
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face=Arial size=2>The most commonly-quoted example of (negative) semantic
prosody is the phrasal verb <I>SET in</I>, as in <I>Dry rot set in</I> (BNC).
Sinclair (1991) has shown that the subjects of this phrasal verb consistently
refer to unpleasant states of affairs.</FONT> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hope this helps.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Chris</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hunston, S. (2008). 'Semantic prosody
revisited.' <EM>International Journal of Corpus Linguistics</EM> 12:2:
249-268</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#000000><FONT face="Arial Baltic"><FONT size=2><SPAN>Louw, B. (1993).
‘Irony in the Text or Insincerity in the Writer? The Diagnostic Potential of
Semantic Prosodies.’ In: Baker, M, G. Francis and E. Tognini-Bonelli. (eds.).
</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
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and Technology</EM>, pp. 157-192</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><FONT
size=2><SPAN>Sinclair, J. McH. </SPAN><FONT face=Arial><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>(</FONT>1991). </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=FR
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: FR">Corpus,
Concordance, Collocation. </SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Oxford:
Oxford University
Press<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Dr. Christoph Rühlemann, </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Ludwig-Maximilians-University,
Munich</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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