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International Journal of Corpus LinguisticsVol. 9:1 (2004) ► pp.131–156
"Utterly content in each other's company"
Semantic prosody and semantic preference
In this paper I wish to examine the two related concepts of semantic prosody and semantic preference. I will begin the section on each with a definition, attempt a review of relevant current positions and then describe a number of corpus-based experiments I conducted to throw light on the two phenomena. Finally, I will try to draw some conclusions about the relationship between them.
Keywords: cohesion, intensification, semantic prosody, semantic preference, phraseology, evaluation
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