Sökning: "corpus-based approach"

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  1. 1. Wicked Witches and Evil Queens? : A corpus-based study of the near-synonyms evil and wicked in contemporary American English

    Master-uppsats, Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

    Författare :Mariam Barazeghi; [2023]
    Nyckelord :adjectives; collocations; corpus linguistics; dictionaries; gender studies; synonyms;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this study is to examine what contemporary corpora can reveal about the use of the two adjectives evil and wicked. These two synonyms have been analysed using corpus linguistics in order to acquire results about the differences between them regarding frequency of use, as well as their collocating nouns. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Exploring the vocabulary content of upper secondary EFL textbooks in Sweden : A corpus-based analysis of types, lexical coverage,progression, and academic words

    Magister-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Författare :Dianne Valize Garcia; [2023]
    Nyckelord :vocabulary study; Academic Word List; word families; lexical coverage; EFL in Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : Vocabulary is considered the building block of language. Without it, communication breaks down. This degree project investigates the vocabulary types, progression, lexical coverage andacademic words in EFL upper secondary textbooks in Sweden. This was done by a corpus-based approach using corpus tools such as Range and AntWord Profiler. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A corpus-based analysis of phrasal verbs with the particle out in two contemporary English novels used in Swedish secondary schools

    Kandidat-uppsats, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Carola Henriksson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency and the figurative meaning senses of out-PVs in two contemporary novels read in Swedish secondary schools. The study was delimited to PVs with the particle out. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Image of Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Immigrants and Migrants in the British Media after the Refugee Crisis of 2015

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Författare :Tatsiana Samuseva; [2022]
    Nyckelord :refugees; asylum seekers; immigrants; migrants; collocates;

    Sammanfattning : This essay examines the discursive construction of the image of refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, and migrants in a 1,472-million word corpus of UK press online articles published between January 2015 and December 2021. A corpus-based approach revealed the most frequent collocates of the four query terms, i.e. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Structural and Functional Analysis of Lexical Bundles in Music Research Articles : A Corpus-Based Approach

    Magister-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Författare :Elena Novella Savelyeva; [2021]
    Nyckelord :formulaic language; lexical bundles; research articles; music; musicology; Corpus linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : Applied linguistics has lately been seen in studies of formulaicity of language operating through recurrent word combinations. The present study deals with one type of word combinations, namely lexical bundles (LBs), which are defined as a sequence of three or more words that frequently co-occur in a particular register (Biber et al., 1999). LÄS MER