Essays about: "collocate s"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words collocate s.

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. The Image of Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Immigrants and Migrants in the British Media after the Refugee Crisis of 2015

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

   Author : Tatsiana Samuseva; [2022]
   Keywords : refugees; asylum seekers; immigrants; migrants; collocates;

   Abstract : This essay examines the discursive construction of the image of refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, and migrants in a 1,472-million word corpus of UK press online articles published between January 2015 and December 2021. A corpus-based approach revealed the most frequent collocates of the four query terms, i.e. READ MORE

4. 3. "Beat the killer disease" : A corpus-driven discourse study on conceptual metaphors in British newspapers

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Pinja Vesen; [2021]
   Keywords : conceptual metaphor; corpus linguistics; coronavirus;

   Abstract : This paper investigates the dominant metaphors in corpora constructed of British online news publications. It uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis, consisting of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and agenda setting theory. READ MORE

5. 4. Discursive representation of the migrant crisis in two UK broadsheets during the summer of 2015 : Approaching newspaper discourse from a corpus-based and critical discourse analytical perspective

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

   Author : Geraldine Gourpil; [2017]
   Keywords : Van Leeuwen’s Social Actor Network; corpus-based approach; CDA; frequencies; collocates; concordance;

   Abstract : By linguistically examining 162 articles published during the summer of 2015 in two UK broadsheets: The Guardian (TG) and The Daily Telegraph (TDT), this essay aims to analyse the discursive representation of the ‘migrant crisis’. To do so, the representation of the social actors migrating (SAM) during the ‘crisis’ was focused on. READ MORE

6. 5. The Female Protagonists in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair : A Corpus Linguistic Study of Keywords, Collocations, and Characterisation

   University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

   Author : Tina Åhman Billing; [2016]
   Keywords : Corpus Linguistics; Corpus Stylistics; Characterisation; Thackeray; Vanity Fair;

   Abstract : This essay uses corpus linguistic methods to study aspects of the novel Vanity Fair by W M Thackeray. The aim is to study the way Thackeray chose to describe his two female protagonists, Rebecca Sharp and Amelia Sedley. READ MORE