中国英语学习者使用totally一词的语义韵

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1、中国英语学习者使用totally—词的语义韵[Abstract]ThisstudytriestorevealthesemanticprosodyofthewordtotallyinChineselearners?writtenEnglishincomparisonwithnativeEnglishspeakersbyexaminingthesemanticprosodicfeaturesoftotallyinSpokenandWrittenEnglishCorpusofChineseLearnersandCorpusofContemporaryAmericanEnglish・T

2、hestudyshowsthatChineseLearnersshowsignificantdifferenceswithnativeEnglishspeakersforthewordtotally.Thepossiblereasonsforthedifferencesmaylieinnegativelanguagetransfer.[Keywords]semanticprosody；corpus；totally1.IntroductionSemanticprosodyfocusesonthemutualinfluenceofwordsinonesentencethrought

3、hestudyoflanguagecollocation.NativeEnglishspeakers,throughlongtimeusingofmotherlanguage,canhardlyusewordswithwrongsemanticprosody.However,thismaynotbetruewhenitcomestoChineseEFLlearnerswhoareoftennotawareofthecollocationofEnglishwords・Thispapertriestorevealthesemanticprosodyoftheword“totally

4、”inChineselearners?EnglishthroughthecomparisonofnativeEnglishspeakers'.TheSpokenandWrittenEnglishCorpusofChineselearnetsandCorpusofContemporaryAmericanEnglishareadoptedinthispaper.1.SemanticProsodySemanticprosodyreferstothephenomenonthatcollocatesbeforeorafterawordtendtoformaspecificsemantic

5、categorywiththesameemotionalsignificance・Thetermusemanticprosody"iscoinedanddefinedbyBillLouw・Accordingtohim,semanticprosodyis“aconsistentauraofmeaningwithwhichaformisimbuedbyitscollocates・”(Louw,1993)Sinclairrevealsthatthewordhappenhabituallycollocateswithunpleasantevents,suchasaccidentshap

6、pen,somethingterriblehashappened,etc・Sohedescribesthephenomenonthat"manyuseofwordsandphrasesshowatendencytooccurinacertainsemanticenvironment.”(Sincla让，2003)Stubbs(1995)classifiessemanticprosodyintothreecategoriesinhisworks，namelynegativeprosody,positiveprosodyandneutralprosody.Thiswayofclas

7、sificationiswidelyacceptedinthefieldoflinguistics.AccordingtoStubbs,withinagivencontext,afavorableorpleasantmeaningisconsideredpositive,whileanunfavorableorunpleasantmeaningisconsiderednegative.Ifcollocatesconveyneutralormixedinformation,ortheconte