Essays about: "Corpus of Contemporary American English"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 essays containing the words Corpus of Contemporary American English.

1. 1. Making the Old New Again : A Corpus Analysis of Semantic Change in Contemporary American English Slang

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Matthew Gallaher; [2023]
   Keywords : semantics; semantic change; corpus studies; corpus linguistics; slang; collocates; context analysis;

   Abstract : This study used a combination of historical and contemporary corpora to investigate semantic change within the contemporary American English slang words swag, flex, and swole. This study involved two parts. READ MORE

3. 2. Wicked Witches and Evil Queens? : A corpus-based study of the near-synonyms evil and wicked in contemporary American English

   University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

   Author : Mariam Barazeghi; [2023]
   Keywords : adjectives; collocations; corpus linguistics; dictionaries; gender studies; synonyms;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine what contemporary corpora can reveal about the use of the two adjectives evil and wicked. These two synonyms have been analysed using corpus linguistics in order to acquire results about the differences between them regarding frequency of use, as well as their collocating nouns. READ MORE

4. 3. A comparison study of the JBXDMY construction inAmerican and British English

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Sebastian Sandström; [2023]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : The "Just Because X Doesn't Mean Y" (JBXDMY) construction initially emerged in the1850s as a spoken expression, typically employed to convey a negative implication to theinterlocutor. This syntactic structure is prevalent in both British and American English, withthe most frequently observed variant in the British corpora being "Just Because X doesn'tmean Y," and in the American corpora, "X That doesn't mean Y. READ MORE

5. 4. The Alt-Right and Agenda Setting Theory : A study of online news outlets and magazines

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Luka Wetzelaer; [2023]
   Keywords : Alt-Right movement; Agenda Setting theory; Corpus linguistics;

   Abstract : The Alt-Right is a movement that became very mainstream and this article’s research is about how often the Alt-Right movement has been mentioned in online news articles and magazines. Previous articles have researched how the Alt-Right has spread its presence on online forums and social media pages, what is written on these online forums where the Alt-Right has a presence and what their main ideas and ideology is. READ MORE

6. 5. A Study of Semantic Change in the Word viral

   University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

   Author : Eldar Jusovic; [2022]
   Keywords : Semantics; Semantic change; Diachronic change; Corpus; Collocation; Context analysis; viral; WWW; dictionaries;

   Abstract : With diachronic corpus over the time periods, I selected a word that might be suitable for this type of study for detecting if potential semantic changes have occurred. In this study, I explored the lexical semantics of the word viral to see if the World Wide Web (WWW) has influenced the word. READ MORE