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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| author | Basthomi, Yazid Yannuar, Nurenzia Widiati, Utami Martiningtyas, Rahma |
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| description | 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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| spelling | ukm.eprints-88612016-12-14T06:48:15Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8861/ C-Smile, COCA, and BNC: a focus on amplifiers and adjective collocations Basthomi, Yazid Yannuar, Nurenzia Widiati, Utami Martiningtyas, Rahma 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. Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8861/1/7301-25689-1-PB.pdf Basthomi, Yazid and Yannuar, Nurenzia and Widiati, Utami and Martiningtyas, Rahma (2015) C-Smile, COCA, and BNC: a focus on amplifiers and adjective collocations. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 21 (2). pp. 73-87. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/638 |
| spellingShingle | Basthomi, Yazid Yannuar, Nurenzia Widiati, Utami Martiningtyas, Rahma C-Smile, COCA, and BNC: a focus on amplifiers and adjective collocations |
| title | C-Smile, COCA, and BNC: a focus on amplifiers and adjective collocations |
| title_full | C-Smile, COCA, and BNC: a focus on amplifiers and adjective collocations |
| title_fullStr | C-Smile, COCA, and BNC: a focus on amplifiers and adjective collocations |
| title_full_unstemmed | C-Smile, COCA, and BNC: a focus on amplifiers and adjective collocations |
| title_short | C-Smile, COCA, and BNC: a focus on amplifiers and adjective collocations |
| title_sort | c smile coca and bnc a focus on amplifiers and adjective collocations |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/8861/1/7301-25689-1-PB.pdf |
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