Semantic prosody
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Semantic prosody
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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. An example given by John Sinclair is the verb set in, which has a negative prosody: e.g. rot 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 m
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Term used in linguistics
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2024-01-27T14:21:02Z
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