Essays about: "collocations in english"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 31 essays containing the words collocations in english.

1. 16. Tudor and Stuart England and the Significance of Adjectives : A Corpus Analysis of Adjectival Modification, Gender Perspectives and Mutual Information Regarding Titles of Social Rank Used in Tudor and Stuart England

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Niclas Vikström; [2015]
   Keywords : Historical sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics; variationist theory; Renaissance English; Late Middle and Early Modern English; titles of social rank; Tudor and Stuart England; the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler CEECS ; adjectival modification; semantic domains; collocations; type token ratios; gender; mutual information.;

   Abstract : The aim of the present study has been to investigate how titles of social rank used in Tudor and Stuart England are modified by attributive adjectives in pre-adjacent position and the implications that become possible to observe. Using the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS) the present work set out to examine adjectival modification, gender perspectives and MI (Mutual Information) scores in order to gain a deeper understanding of how and why titles were modified in certain ways. READ MORE

3. 17. Irish loanwords in English varieties

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Emma Fristedt; [2015]
   Keywords : Irish loanwords; English varieties; Collocations; Word use; Language contact;

   Abstract : This essay will discuss and research the width and frequency of Irish loanwords in contemporary English varieties. The meanings, uses, differences, similarities and collocations of selected words will be discussed and analyzed in order to find answers to the research questions asked. READ MORE

4. 18. Absolutely amplified : A corpus study of amplifiers, their usage and collocations in two different corpora

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Alexander Willstedt; [2014]
   Keywords : adverbs; amplifiers; collocations; corpus-studies; gendered language; linguistics; normalization;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate the usage and frequencies of amplifiers in the English language and whether there are differences in usage, collocations and in gender. The material used is the Swedish-English Corpus (SWENC), a collection of Swedish native speaking journalists writing in English, and the Corpus of American Soaps (SOAP), a collection of American soap opera scripts. READ MORE

5. 19. The conceptualisation of FEMININITY on English Wikipedia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Max Bäckström; [2014]
   Keywords : Conceptual analysis; feminity; Wikipedia; multivariate statistics; corpus linguistics; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This study undertakes a quantitative and usage-based Cognitive Linguistic study on the representation and conceptualisation of FEMININITY on English Wikipedia. Contemporary information media are changing fundamentally and the place of Wikipedia in the new media space is important not only because of its influence but because it is radically different to traditional media. READ MORE

6. 20. Maximizers - completely complex adverbs : A corpus study of the maximizer usage in American and Swedish journalists' writing in English

   University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Sanna Eriksson; [2014]
   Keywords : amplifiers; collocations; corpus-studies; intensifiers; linguistics; maximizers; second versus first language acqusition; semantic prosody;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate the possible differences in the way American and Swedish journalists writing in English use maximizers, i.e. intensifying adverbs. READ MORE