A Corpus-Based Study on Synonyms in Chinese Learners'English:A Case Study of Affair"and"Event"  

作　　者：Hua Yang 

机构地区：[1]Taiyuan University of Science and Technology [2]Taiyuan 030000,Shanxi Province,China

出　　处：《Journal of Contemporary Educational Research》2022年第2期9-16,共8页当代教育研究（百图）

摘　　要：Using British National Corpus(BNC)as the reference corpus and Chinese Learner's English Corpus(CLEC)as the observed corpus,this paper attempts to analyze synonyms in Chinese learners5 English based on"event"and tcaffair.?,By comparing the frequency,colligation,collocates,and semantic prosody of the two words in BNC,it is found that"event"and“affaiT”differ from each other in terms of frequency and semantic prosody.The same comparison is made between BNC and CLEC.It is found that Chinese learnersJ English vocabulary is rather small,and there is no significant difference in the semantic prosody of the two words between English native speakers and Chinese English learners except that Chinese English learners have a misunderstanding about"love affair,which may be attributed to their negligence of semantic prosody in the process of learning.

关 键 词：SYNONYMS Chinese English learners Semantic prosody 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]