A critique of the concept of semantic prosody

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 283-305

  Whitsitt, Sam ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b University of Bologna   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collocation; Connotation; Corpus linguistics; Metaphor; Priming; Semantic prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248696386     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.10.3.01whi     Document Type: Article

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