Semantic Prosody Revisited: Implications for Language Learning

Omidian, Taha; Siyanova‐Chanturia, Anna

doi:10.1002/tesq.557

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“…However, not all persons have the same exposure history. For instance, people who learn English as a second language have a far different history of exposure to English words than do native English speakers (Omidian & Siyanova-Chanturia, 2020; Xiao & McEnery, 2006; Zhang, 2021). Similarly, scientists may frequently use the word “cause” in contexts that differ from the negative collocates that characterize “cause” in the corpus of everyday language.…”

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Semantic Prosody: How Neutral Words With Collocational Positivity/Negativity Color Evaluative Judgments

Hauser

Schwarz

2023

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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We like people and objects more when they are described in positive than in negative terms. But even seemingly neutral words can elicit positive or negative responses. This is the case for words that predominantly occur alongside positive (or negative) words in natural language. Despite lacking positivity/negativity when evaluated in isolation, such semantically prosodic words activate the evaluative associations of their usual company, which can color judgment in unrelated domains. For example, people are more likely to infer that “endocrination” (a fictional medical outcome) is negative when it is “caused” (a word with negative semantic prosody) rather than “produced” (a synonymous word without semantic prosody). We review what is known about the influence of semantically prosodic words and highlight their importance for judgment and decision making.

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Semantic Prosody: How Neutral Words With Collocational Positivity/Negativity Color Evaluative Judgments

Hauser

Schwarz

2023

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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“…The rationale for focusing on word forms as the target unit of analysis was to account for their instability in use across different discourse types. Corpus-based vocabulary studies have repeatedly shown that different forms of a word can exhibit disparity in the semantic, syntactic, and thematic ties that they establish with their surrounding context (e.g., Durrant, 2014Durrant, , 2016Hyland & Tse, 2007;Sinclair, 1991; also see Omidian & Siyanova-Chanturia, 2020). This level of disparity in use is often influenced by the situational characteristics of the register in which word forms are used.…”

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Parameters of variation in the use of words in empirical research writing

Omidian

Siyanova‐Chanturia

2021

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Empirical research writing is one of the primary means of disseminating knowledge in academia. It is through this particular form of knowledge dissemination that a rich body of scientific knowledge about a given phenomenon is accumulated. This paper explores patterns of variation in the language of this specific sub-register of academic writing, as reflected in the use of words in different sections of empirical research articles from across ten disciplinary fields. An inductive approach was adopted through which patterns of specificity in vocabulary use were systematically identified, triangulated and verified using different methods of data analysis. The results presented in this study show that the lexical choices academics make in the process of composing their research papers are differentially affected by the standards and conventions of scholarly activities in their field. It was found that such conventions have the potential to govern the delineation of authors' linguistic decisions at the most basic levels, such as the lexis.

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“…Once again, the semantic association added by socio-pragmatic aspects is proven to be practical in identifying and describing phenomena pictured in a discourse. Since discourse prosody is recommended to be applied even in learning language (Omidian & Siyanova-Chanturia, 2020), it is not excessively to resolve that it is also suggested in learning more about hoax news and its link to the actual social issue in this country.…”

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Corpus-Based Analysis of Online Hoax Discourse on Transportation Subject Picturing Indonesian Issue

Pinem¹

2021

Lingua Cultura

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This research discussed Indonesian hoax on transportation, spread using chain messages over social media, a major hoax subject. Setting social structure as an element to consider in hoax discourse gave different perspectives on why hoax news took place. Contrasting identified online hoax discourse to corpus-derived prosody could be interpreted using a sociopragmatic approach by Lin and Chung (2016). This research tried to look at how discourse on hoax correlated to real social issues among Indonesian people. Digital forensic was done by tracking discourse used as data from hoax news collection on turnbackhoax.com during 2017-2019. Discourse was later generated into clusters of subject idea of ‘tilang’, ‘jalan tol’, public land transport and infrastructure, ‘kecelakaan pesawat’, ‘lowongan kerja’, ‘China’, insecurity toward government and ‘kecelakaan kapal’. The subject idea was later consulted to Indonesian Web Corpus (IWAC). Through the socio-pragmatic approach, prosody derived by contrasting process portrayed hoax on transportation as a reflection of unsolved current social problems among Indonesian community including distrust toward the government, unawareness on transport safety, law and regulation, economic status, and trend. The finding of this research is recommended to take action toward those problems to eliminate hoax spread in the transportation sector.

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Semantic Prosody Revisited: Implications for Language Learning

Cited by 7 publications

References 32 publications

Semantic Prosody: How Neutral Words With Collocational Positivity/Negativity Color Evaluative Judgments

Semantic Prosody: How Neutral Words With Collocational Positivity/Negativity Color Evaluative Judgments

Parameters of variation in the use of words in empirical research writing

Corpus-Based Analysis of Online Hoax Discourse on Transportation Subject Picturing Indonesian Issue

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