ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABSTRACT
摘要
CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
1.2 Purpose and Significance of the Study
1.3 Structure of the Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Synonymy
2.2 Four Extended Units of Meaning
2.2.1 Collocation
2.2.2 Coiligation
2.2.3 Semantie Preference
2.2.4 Semantic Prosody
2.3 Review of Previous Studies on Semantic Prosoay
2.3.1 General Studies of Semantic Prosody
2.3.2 Cross-linguistic Studies of Semantic Prosody
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Research Questions
3.2 Synonyms Chosen in the Study
3.3 Research Approaches
3.3.1 Approaches to Reveal Semantic Prosody
3.3.2 Interlanguage Contrastive Analysis
3.4 Research Instruments
3.4.1 Corpora
3.4.2 Software
3.5 Research Procedures
Chapter Four Results and Discussion
4.1 A Contrastive Analysis of Frequency
4.1.1 Frequency of motive and motivation
4.1.2 Frequency of provide and supply
4.1.3 Frequency of fairly and rather
4.2 A Contrastive Analysis of Collocation Features
4.2.1 Collocation Features of motive and motivation
4.2.2 Collocation Features of provide and supply
4.2.3 Collocation Features of fairly and rather
4.3 A Contrastive Analysis of Semantic Prosody
4.3.1 Semantic Prosody of motive and motivation
4.3.2 Semantic Prosody of provide and supply
4.3.3 Semantic Prosody of fairly and rather
4.4 Possible Reasons for Misuses
4.4.1 Language Transfer
4.4.2 Traditional Vocabulary Learning and Teaching
4.4.3 Pragmatic Awareness
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Implications
5.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Future Studies
REFERENCES
Appendices
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