A Corpus-Based Study of the Near Synonymous of the word “Beautiful” Posted: April 12th, 2014
The study should be a corpus-based study of a set of near synonymous words (beautiful, handsome, pretty, stunning, good looking, and cute) and you can add more words within a semantic prosody.
Analyse the set of the near synonymous of the word “beautiful” to find:
• Frequencies
• Collocations
• Concordances
• clusters
to identify the differences and the similarities in the meanings and uses among these synonymous.
From a perspective of :
• The meaning ( denotation or connotation}
• The use of these near synonymous either ( colligation or collocation)
The justification of choosing these near synonymous to find the muscularity and femininity behind these words and link them to age ( Gender & Age)
The data will be collected from BNC (British National Corpus)
COURPUS AND LEXICAL ASSIGNMET
Empirical 5,000 word research investigation into an area of lexis, using corpora and software tools .
The exact focus of the investigation will be decided by negotiation with the unit tutors.
The primary aim of the assignment is to assess your understanding of key issues of the unit and to show that you have met the learning outcomes, which are:
1. Critically reflect on: the role of vocabulary as a component of language in society and its relationship to other aspects of language; the theoretical models which describe lexical knowledge, access and storage; the tools used to measure vocabulary knowledge and use.
2. Retrieve and analyse lexical information from a range of corpora, using the approaches and methods that are characteristic of corpus linguistics.
