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A Corpus-Based Study of the Synonyms: Perfect, Flawless, Impeccable
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Kongcharoen, Pong-ampai; Thummanuruk, Wannasiri – THAITESOL Journal, 2023
This research investigated three synonymous adjectives "perfect," "flawless," and "impeccable" in terms of meaning, degree of formality, collocations, and grammatical patterns. The three synonymous adjectives were scrutinized through the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). The findings suggested that these…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes
Semantic Prosody and Collocation: A Corpus Study of the Near-Synonyms "Persist" and "Persevere"
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Phoocharoensil, Supakorn – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2021
Near-synonyms in English often cause considerable confusion among EFL students. This study aims to clarify this confusion through a corpus-based investigation of the target synonymous verbs "persist" and "persevere" with focus on distribution across genres, collocations, and semantic preference/prosody. The results, based on…
Descriptors: Semantics, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Phrase Structure
Multimodal Perspective into Teachers' Definitional Practices: Comparing Subject-Specific Language in Physics and History Lessons
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Leila Kääntä – Educational Linguistics, 2021
This chapter compares two teachers' definitional practices in two Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL) lessons, i.e. physics and history, which are taught in English in Finland. It adopts Dalton-Puffer's (Eur J Appl Linguistics 1(2):216-253, 2013; Cognitive discourse functions: specifying an integrative interdisciplinary construct. In:…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Science Teachers, History Instruction