基于商务语料库的英汉“导致”类近义词语义韵对比研究.docVIP

　　基于商务语料库的英汉“导致”类近义词语义韵对比研究----商务英语论文 --CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Research Background In vocabulary study, the phenomenon of synonymy has been of great interest for both language learners and language teachers. For the former, a lot of evidence has shos ilar in meaning (Rudska et al. 1982, 1985). For the latter, it is a popular practice in pedagogy to explain the strange s of so-called synonyms. Besides, it has been found that a dominant feature shared by most dictionary texts is “definition through synonyms” (Ilson 1991:294-6). Both non-native learners and translators often resort to dictionaries to find lexical alternatives for expressing a particular concept for the purpose of stylistic variation. Hoisuse of synonyms by non-native learners and translators, it should be of priority to figure out s offered by dictionaries is the most suitable one for a given context. Therefore, studies conducted to reveal more information about synonym discrimination from the perspective of semantic features are of great significance. The traditional discrimination mainly rely on intuition and subjective deduction. They are inefficient in uncovering the collocational or pragmatic information astering a lexical ent of corpus linguistics, nos by using large corpora, inates the subjective factors of traditional methods. The corpus-based synonym discrimination can provide lots of quantitative data that the traditional ore reliable research result. .......... 1.2 Rationale Firstly, as an important language phenomenon discovered -- and studied by corpus linguistics, semantic prosody has proved an effective and reliable inate near-synonyms. According to Louantic prosody is a “consistent aura of meaning is imbued by its collocates” plications of a transfer of meaning to a given its habitual co-text. Many hidden associations affecting the neutrality of language can be observed by corpus linguistics. For example, it is found that largely occurs more frequently ore frequently antic pr