A Corpus Study of Strong and Powerful

Corpus linguistics and the study of synonyms Corpus linguistics also contributes to the study of synonyms According to Lindquist (2009), corpus linguistics is a methodology through which a particular language is studied for its real usage This linguistic method allows for empirical language study, hence the comprehensive

A corpus-based study of English synonyms: advise, recommend

one corpus , namely , the British National Corpus (BNC) Taking a corpus of 450 concordance lines from one corpus , the data was put into an Excel worksheet It was searched and analyzed manually using the aforementioned two criteria The results show ed that three synonymous verbs cannot be used interchangeably i n every context

A corpus-based study on the English synonyms: respond, reply

2 1 The concept of corpus 5 2 1 1 The British National Corpus (BNC) 7 2 1 2 The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) 7 2 2 The concept of synonyms 7 2 2 1 Strict and loose synonyms 8 2 2 2 Criteria for distinguishing synonyms 9 2 3 Relevant research 11

5A Corpus-Based Analysis of Synonyms

A Corpus-Based Analysis of Synonyms—Take absolutely and thoroughly for example JIN Ying-ying, QI Xiao-wen University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China Based on the British National Corpus (BNC), this paper makes an analysis of the word absolutely and thoroughly from their collocation

Effectiveness of Corpus in Teaching English Synonyms

corpus data could help them to learn synonyms by exploring and analysing the collocational and colligation patterns of synonyms in a corpus to achieve accuracy in language usage This research aims to explore how naturally occurring discourse of corpus can be used to teach different functions of synonyms effectively

A Corpus Based Study on English Synonyms: Babble, Blather

corpus only covers a span of 28 years, it is significant that there are already visible trends in the decline or increase of these words Figure 3 shows the general trends 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Babble Blather Chatter Gibber Jabber Prattle Spoken Fiction Magazine Newspaper Academic

A Corpus-Based Study of EnglishSynonyms

A Corpus-Based Study of EnglishSynonyms Supakorn Phoocharoensil, Thammasat University, Thailand Abstract: This study examines five synonyms in English, i e ask, beg, plead, request, and appeal, concentrating on their lexical, syntactic, and stylistic information The data were drawn from three learners’ dictionaries in comparison to