C-Smile, COCA, and BNC: a focus on amplifiers and adjective collocations
In order to explicate a specific message from statements, amplifiers mostly collocate with particular lexical items referring to evaluation, judgment, or attitude. Using six types of amplifiers consisting of absolutely, completely, entirely, fully, totally, and utterly, the research intends to eli...
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| Language: | English |
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Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
2015
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8861/1/7301-25689-1-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8861/ http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/638 |
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| Summary: | In order to explicate a specific message from statements, amplifiers mostly collocate with particular lexical
items referring to evaluation, judgment, or attitude. Using six types of amplifiers consisting of absolutely,
completely, entirely, fully, totally, and utterly, the research intends to elicit kinds of adjective collocation that
follow each of the amplifiers. Three different corpora of non-native and native speakers of English are used in
order to see the common pattern of amplifiers and their collocations as well as to compare their use in different
contexts and among users of English. The results show that the collocations are varied in the sense that each
corpus provides a number of adjectives in which some of them are similar to the ones occurring in the other
corpora and some others only occur in a particular corpus. Specific evaluations of amplifiers viewed from their
adjective collocations fall under three basic categories of positive, negative, and neutral values. By
investigating and comparing amplifiers and collocations used in non-native and native academic writings, the
findings of the present study point to the fact that each amplifier constitutes specific evaluations. |
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