A Corpus Analysis of Plesionyms Attribute, Characteristic, and Trait in Academic English
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Sadie M. M. Nitta, Hawaii Pacific University
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2023
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Working Paper
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This paper investigates the plesionyms attribute, characteristic, and trait using the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). It explores their frequency and variation across COCA's six registers and sub-registers, then examines their grammatical behaviors and semantic preference and prosody through concordancing in COCA's academic journals (ACAD). The results show that attribute mostly occurs in academic journals related to business, science/technology, and education characteristic mostly occurs in academic journals related to business, education, and medicine and trait mostly occurs in academic journals related to science/technology, philosophy/religion, and business. Noun collocations associated with each term suggest a strong preference for standards/quality with positive semantic prosody (attribute), demographics/ species/property with neutral semantic prosody (characteristic), and cognition/behavior/genetics with neutral semantic prosody (trait). The paper concludes with a set of materials for one corpus-informed lesson following the IllustrationInduction-Interaction (I-I-I) model (Timmis, 2015).
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Hawaii Pacific University
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TESOL Working Paper Series
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21
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2573-1467