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Nelson, Mike – English for Specific Purposes, 2006
This paper examines the semantic associations of words found in the business lexical environment by using a one-million word corpus of both spoken and written Business English. The key method of analysis is that of semantic prosody or semantic association; the notion that words associate with collocates that are themselves related, often either…
Descriptors: Semantics, Business English, Language Processing, Associative Learning