[Corpora-List] Semantic Prosody questions?

Sat Dec 18 10:06:49 UTC 2004

Dear John,

Thank you for your reply - I'd better post a list of what I have read so
far, then.

Stubbs, Michael (1995), Collocations and Semantic Profiles: On the Cause of
the Trouble with Quantitative Studies, at
http://www.uni-trier.de/uni/fb2/anglistik/Projekte/stubbs/cause.htm

Rundell, Mike (2000), These Things Happen. In Humanising Language Teaching,
Year 2, Issue 4, July 2000, at http://www.hltmag.co.uk/jul00/idea.htm

"Domestic discord, rocky relationships: semantic prosodies in
representations of marital violence in the O.J. Simpson trial" by Janet
Cotterill, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, 2001, at
http://www.btinternet.com/%7ENegativecharisma/dv/cotterill.pdf

"What is an advanced vocabulary?" Meeting; Presenter: Mike McCarthy (Western
Infirmary Lecture Theatre, Glasgow - 19 October 2002) at
http://www.satefl.org.uk/newsletters/winter0103/meeting.doc

"CREATURES OF HABIT? WHAT TRANSLATORS USUALLY DO WITH WORDS" by DOROTHY
KENNY, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, Meta, XLIII, 4, 1998
http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/savant/meta/v43n04/kenny/kenny.pdf

Nelson, Mike (2000), A Corpus-Based Study of Business English and Business
English Teaching Materials, Unpublished PhD Thesis - Chapter 4.4, at
http://www.kielikanava.com/chap4.html

"Beyond collocation: meaning groups and semantic prosody in Business English
- Computers and Semantic Prosody" by Mike Nelson at
http://www.kielikanava.com/semantic.html

"If only they'd asked a linguist…" by Mike Rundell, Humanising Language
Teaching, Year 4; Issue 4; July 02, at
http://www.hltmag.co.uk/jul02/idea.htm

I have also read the discussion on this list at
http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/corpora/2003-2/0097.html, which is how I found
out about this group.

Again, thank you everyone for responding, I appreciate it very much. I am
right now in the process of trying to order the books recommended here, and
reading what is available online. Thanks so much.

Irena
irenashuke at hotmail.com

>From: John Colby <colby at soe.ucsc.edu> To: "Irena Shuke"
><irenashuke at hotmail.com> CC: CORPORA at UIB.NO Subject: Re: [Corpora-List]
>Semantic Prosody questions? Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:27:18 -0800
>
>Irena,
>
>Could you post a message to the board clarifying the nature of the
>literature you were seeking, ("semantic prosody" vs "semantics" and
>"prosody") and what literature you found in your search.
>
>Thanks, John
>
>On Dec 16, 2004, at 4:18 PM, Irena Shuke wrote:
>
>>Dear All,
>>
>>I just wanted to thank everyone for replying, it has been very very
>>helpful indeed. I had made use of some of the sources mentioned here,
>>heard of some others and still trying to get a hold of some of the books.
>>I am going to order more now from the library. If anyone has any more
>>suggestions, they will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Thank you so much.
>>
>>Irena
>>
>>
>> >From: "Xiao, Zhonghua" <z.xiao at lancaster.ac.uk>  >To: "Irena Shuke"
>><irenashuke at hotmail.com>  >CC: <CORPORA at UIB.NO>  >Subject: RE:
>>[Corpora-List] Semantic Prosody questions?  >Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004
>>03:11:31 -0000  >  >Irena,  >  >Thought you might find the following
>>references helpful:  >  >Richard  >  >  >Dr Richard Xiao  >Department of
>>Linguistics  >Lancaster University  >Bailrigg, Lancaster  >LA1 4YT
>> >United Kingdom  >  >Home:
>>http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/xiao/index.htm  >Corplang:
>>http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/corplang  >  >========  >  >Corpora List
>>Archive 17/10/03: http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/corpora/2003-2/0097.html  >
>> >  >  >Hunston, S. 2002. Corpora in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge:
>>Cambridge University Press.  >  >  >  >Louw, B. 1993. 'Irony in the text
>>or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic
>>prosodies' in Baker M., Francis G. and Tognini-Bonelli E. (eds.) Text and
>>Technology: In Honour of John Sinclair, pp. 157-76. Amsterdam: John
>>Benjamins.  >  >  >  >Louw, B. 2000. 'Contextual prosodic theory: bringing
>>semantic prosodies to life' in Heffer C., Sauntson H. and Fox G. (eds.)
>>Words in Context: A tribute to John Sinclair on his Retirement [English
>>Language Research Discourse Analysis Monograph No. 18 (CD-ROM)].
>>Birmingham: University of Birmingham.  >  >  >  >Partington, A. 1998.
>>Patterns and Meanings. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  >  >  >  >Partington,
>>A. 2004. '"Utterly content in each other's company": Semantic prosody and
>>semantic preference'. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 9/1:
>>131-156.  >  >  >  >Sardinha, T. 2000. 'Semantic prosodies in English and
>>Portuguese: A contrastive study'. Cuadernos de Filología Inglesa 9/1:
>>93-110. Accessed on January 19, 2004 at
>>http://lael.pucsp.br/~tony/2000murcia_prosodies.pdf.  >  >  >  >Stubbs, M.
>>2001. 'On inference theories and code theories: Corpus evidence for
>>semantic schemas'. Text 21/3: 437-465.  >  >  >  >Stubbs, M. 2001. Words
>>and Phrases. Oxford: Blackwell.  >  >  >  >Tim Johns:
>>http://www.eisu.bham.ac.uk/Webmaterials/kibbitzers/kibbitzer24.htm.  >  >
>> >  >============  >  >________________________________  >  >From:
>>owner-corpora at lists.uib.no on behalf of Irena Shuke  >Sent: Wed 15/12/2004
>>22:58  >To: CORPORA at UIB.NO  >Subject: [Corpora-List] Semantic Prosody
>>questions?  >  >  >  >Dear All,  >  >I recently joined this list because I
>>had come across a topic discussed in  >it via Google.com, namely one about
>>semantic prosody. I was just wondering  >if it would be alright to ask any
>>questions about it here on this list, or  >would someone please recommend
>>another list which would be more appropriate.  >I am trying to write my MA
>>paper on Semantic Prosody at the University of  >Latvia.  >  >Thank you,
>> >Irena Shuke  >Riga, Latvia  >irenashuke at hotmail.com  >

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