语料库语言学开题报告.ppt

A Contrastive Study of Semantic Prosody and Colligation in Two Corpora——the Master’s Dissertations of Faculty of International Studies in Henan Normal University and Academic Dissertations of Native English Scholars ByxxxA proposal submitted tothe supervisors committeeFaculty of International StudiesIn Henan Normal UniversityMar.24, 2007 Thesis statement I. Research Motivation  There is a hot debate on the research of semantic prosody and colligation in nowadays. Few people have done such research in academic corpora. Find the differences from our Master’s dissertations to those of English native scholars. Corpus linguistics can provide both qualitative and quantitative approaches. EFL learners' constructing grammatically correct but unnatural and unacceptable sentences have gradually shifted scholars' sights from traditional grammar to lexico-grammar. The former emphasizes the mastery of syntactic rules, but the latter advocates that form, meaning and function are associated. So to approach a word and its use from lexico-grammar perspective, one has to consider the immediate linguistic context, i.e. the grammatical and lexical patterns for the word. II. Theoretical Framework 1. Theory of semantic prosody, collocation, colligation and their relationships. 2. Corpus linguistics. 3. Statistics III. Research Questions 1. Are there significant discrepancies on semantic prosody and colligation in two corpora? If there are, what are they? 2. Are there any abnormal collocations? If there are, what are they? and why? misapplied, or deliberate? IV. Research Significance 1. The article is hoped to be of some help and reference to the graduate students. 2. It may also provide implications about English vocabulary instruction, dictionary compilation, as well as the application of corpora to second language learning. V. Research Methodology 1. Instruments Wordsmith will be used to extract the desired occurrences of the target item. Besides, SPSS will