Critical Discourse Analysis and the Corpus-informed Interpretation of Metaphor at the Register Level

The Language of Consumer Advertising: Linguistic and Psychological Perspectives

“…It does not view context variables to be correlated to an autonomous system of language; rather, language and the social are seen as connected to each other brought a dialectical relationship. Texts are deconstructed and their underlying meanings made explicit; the object of investigation is discursive strategies which legitimize or "naturalize" social processes (Orpin, 2005;O'Halloran, 2007;Campbell & Roberts, 2007).…”

Semantic Prosody Revisited: Implications for Language Learning

“…When put in the context of semantic prosody, this means that learners should be wary of the disparity that might exist in the quality and strength of the evaluative force of lexical items when used in different genres (Partington, ). O’Halloran () refers to this kind of prosody as genre prosody and argues that certain lexical items (e.g., erupted, simmering , swept through ) tend to have conventional pragmatic meanings which are intimately bound up with the context of the genres in which they are used (also see Bednarek, ). What this means for language learning is that learners should be fully aware that utterances need the backdrop provided by the context of situation to fulfil their communicative purpose, and that lexical items in realizing their full potential (i.e., communication of thought) can give rise to systematic lexical patterns that are localized within the situation in which they are employed.…”

Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia

“…Second, semantic prosody, as well as semantic preference, is genre or register-dependent (O'Halloran, 2007). In his analysis of the word lavish in the Bank of English, Partington (2004), for example, finds that it has an unfavourable prosody in news genres, whereas in such fields as the arts and entertainment it is used with positive undertones.…”