EFL学习者语义韵意识研究——以cause和lead to为例

摘要

Semantic prosody is an important study object in contemporary corpus linguistics. As a hot research topic, it is now attracting the interest of more and more researchers. Semantic prosody is a special eolloeational phenomenon which shows the special behavior of the word collocation. Generally it is divided into positive semantic prosody, negative semantic prosody and neutral semantic prosody. Collocational behavior in EFL learners" language has always been the focus of the Second foreign language teaching and research. This study effects a semantic prosody research on cause and lead to and makes a comparison between the scores of bachelor's degree and master's degree students. Based on the above contents, it analyzes and studies whether EFL (English as a foreign language ) learners" awareness of semantic prosody is improved with the increase of their English level.%语义韵是一种特殊的搭配现象，展示的是词语搭配的特殊行为，一般分为积极语义韵、消极语义韵和中性语义韵。EFL（English as a foreign language）学习者的词语搭配行为历来是外语教学研究中的重点。本研究通过对cause和leadto的语义韵研究和学生所做试题的成绩对比，分析研究EFL学习者的英语语义韵意识是否会随英语水平的提高而提高。