Semantic prosody , also discourse prosody , describes the way in which certain seemingly neutral words can be perceived with positive or negative associations through frequent occurrences with particular collocations . Coined in analogy to linguistic prosody , popularised by Bill Louw.
12-584: [REDACTED] Look up prosody or prosodic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prosody may refer to: Prosody (Sanskrit) , the study of poetic meters and verse in Sanskrit and one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies Prosody (Greek) , the theory and practice of Greek versification Prosody (Latin) , the study of Latin versification and its laws of meter Prosody (linguistics) ,
24-428: A positive prosody in sports reporting but a negative prosody in hard news reporting. In recent years, linguists have used corpus linguistics and concordancing software to find such hidden associations. Specialised software is used to arrange key words in context from a corpus of several million words of naturally occurring text. The collocates can then be arranged alphabetically according to first or second word to
36-417: A range of effects are possible as a result of such a collocational clash: There are debates about whether the regular co-occurrence of a particular word with positive/negative words results in that word acquiring a positive or negative connotation. Clear counter-examples include words with positive connotations that regularly co-occur with negative words, for example ease , soothe , tackle . In such cases,
48-435: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages prosody [REDACTED] Look up prosody or prosodic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prosody may refer to: Prosody (Sanskrit) , the study of poetic meters and verse in Sanskrit and one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies Prosody (Greek) ,
60-612: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Semantic prosody An example given by John Sinclair is the verb set in , which has a negative prosody: e.g. rot (with negative associations) is a prime example of what is going to 'set in'. Another well-known example is the verb sense of cause , which is also used mostly in a negative context (accident, catastrophe, etc.), though one can also say that something "caused happiness". Semantic prosody, like semantic preference, can be genre- or register-dependent. For example, erupted has
72-411: Is now being combined with that of lexicography. Semantic prosodies can be examined cross-linguistically, by contrasting the semantic prosody of near synonyms in different languages such as English and Chinese. If a word with a strong negative semantic prosody (e.g. onslaught ) co-occurs with a positive word (e.g. hospitality ) instead of an expected negative word (e.g. an onslaught of hospitalit y),
84-653: The Science of Poetry Semantic prosody , the way neutral words can be perceived as positive or negative Emotional prosody , perception of emotion in speech Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Prosody . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prosody&oldid=952549082 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
96-420: The right or to the left. Using such a method, Elena Tognini-Bonelli (2001) found that the word largely occurred more frequently with negative words or expressions, while broadly appeared more frequently with positive ones. Lexicographers have often failed to account for semantic prosody when defining a word, although with the recent development and increasing use of computers , the field of corpus linguistics
108-410: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Prosody . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prosody&oldid=952549082 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
120-634: The suprasegmental characteristics of speech Prosody (music) , the manner of setting words to music Prosody (software) , a cross-platform XMPP server written in Lua Metre (poetry) , the rhythmic structure of versed text See also [ edit ] Arabic prosody , study of poetic meters in Arabic; sometimes called the Science of Poetry Semantic prosody , the way neutral words can be perceived as positive or negative Emotional prosody , perception of emotion in speech Topics referred to by
132-488: The theory and practice of Greek versification Prosody (Latin) , the study of Latin versification and its laws of meter Prosody (linguistics) , the suprasegmental characteristics of speech Prosody (music) , the manner of setting words to music Prosody (software) , a cross-platform XMPP server written in Lua Metre (poetry) , the rhythmic structure of versed text See also [ edit ] Arabic prosody , study of poetic meters in Arabic; sometimes called
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#1732790768312144-401: The words that follow such verbs are probably perceived as negative, but not the verbs themselves. Another debate concerns whether the term semantic/discourse prosody only relates to positive/negative meaning (narrow definition) or to more complex attitudinal/functional meaning. According to John Sinclair, semantic prosody "expresses something close to the ‘function’ of the item – it shows how
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