(精选)英语词汇学chapter 9 collocative meaning课件.pptVIP

chapter 9 Collocative meaning; Collocative meaning consists of the associations a word acquires on account of the meanings of words which tend to occur in its environment. ;Pretty and handsome share common ground in the meaning good-looking, but may be distinguished by the range of nouns with which they are likely to co-occur.; Girl boy boy man woman car flower vessel pretty garden handsome overcoat colour airliner village typewriter etc. etc. ;Not all differences in potential co-occurrence need to be explained as collocative meaning: some may be due to stylistic differences, others to conceptual differences. ;It is the incongruity of combining unlike styles that makes He mounted his gee-gee or He got on his steed an improbable combination. ; On the other hand, the acceptability of “The donkey ate hay, as opposed to “The donkey ate silence, is a matter of compatibility on the level of conceptual semantics ; Only when explanation in terms of other categories of meaning does not apply do we need to invoke the special category of collocative meaning.;2.Weakpoints:;According to Leech，pretty and handsome both mean “nice-looking”,but their collocative meanings differ,because they co-occur with different words and they suggest two kinds of beauty. ;But how do we interpret such words as “good, strong and high” when they collocate respectively with “chance, likelihood, probability, possibility”? ; good likelihood strong likelihood *high likelihood *good probability strong probability high probability good possibility strong possibility *high possibility good chance *strong chance * high chance ;Leech might say:good g