A few Frequently Asked Questions about semantic - or evaluative - prosody

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 139-158

  Morley, John ^a   Partington, Alan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Co selection; Connotation; Evaluation; Language change; Lexical priming; Semantic prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 68549112933     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.14.2.01mor     Document Type: Review

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