A semantic prosody analysis of two adjective synonymous ...

A SEMANTIC PROSODY ANALYSIS OF TWO ADJECTIVE SYNONYMOUS PAIRS (SECURE & STABLE AND VULNERABLE & SUSCEPTIBLE)

IN COCA

BY

MISS WANWIPA CANTANURAK

AN INDEPENDENT STUDY PAPER SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF

THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING LANGUAGE INSTITUTE

THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC YEAR 2016

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A SEMANTIC PROSODY ANALYSIS OF TWO ADJECTIVE SYNONYMOUS PAIRS (SECURE & STABLE AND VULNERABLE & SUSCEPTIBLE)

IN COCA

BY MISS WANWIPA CANTNAURAK

AN INDEPENDENT STUDY PAPER SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE

OF MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

LANGUAGE INSTITUTE THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY

ACADEMIC YEAR 2016 COPYRIGHT OF THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY

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A Semantic Prosody Analysis Of Two Adjective Synonymous Pairs ( Secure & Stable And Vulnerable & Susceptible) In Coca Miss Wanwipa Cantanurak Master of Arts English Language Teaching Language Institute Thammasat University Ajarn Upsorn Tawilapakul, Ph.D. 2016

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to investigate the semantic prosodies and the interchangeability of the two adjective synonymous pairs secure & stable and vulnerable & susceptible chosen from academic core word list in COCA. Obtaining the data from COCA corpus, this study found that secure & stable contain particularly positive semantic prosodies while vulnerable & susceptible are associated with negative semantic prosodies. Despite each pairs similar denotational meanings, each pair shares different most co-occurred collocates, so they are considered to be only near synonyms and cannot be used interchangeably in all contexts.

Keywords: coca, corpus linguistics, synonymy, semantic prosody

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In conducting this research study, I was given the help and guidance of some respected persons. At this opportunity, I would like to express my greatest gratitude to Ajarn Upsorn Tawilapakul, Ph.D. for her aspiring guidance, professional advice and support throughout the research study. In addition, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of the instructors at the Language Institute of Thammasat University because they paved the way to the extensive knowledge of English language leading to conducting this research.

Lastly, I am deeply thankful to members of my family for their supportive encouragement, unending inspiration and motivation.

Thammasat University Bangkok, Thailand

Ms.Wanwipa Cantanurak

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