A Study on the Correlation between Semantic Prosodies of English Logical Resultative Formulae and Genres: A Corpus-based Approach

Abstract

In our previous studies, we have done some research
on semantic prosodies of 13 English logical resultative formulae
from a global perspective. Yet, the correlation between semantic
prosodies of 13 English logical resultative formulae and genres
has not been touched upon. So in the present article, based upon
the analysis of large corpus, we attempt to study the correlation
between semantic prosodies of 13 English logical resultative
formulae and genres. The study discovers that: first, to a certain
extent there is a correlation between the semantic prosodies of 13
English logical resultative formulae and five genres; second, in
different genres, the same English logical resultative formulae
may have different semantic prosodies; third, the dominating
semantic prosody tendency in one genre is not just one kind of
semantic prosody, rather a group of two or three kinds of
semantic prosody.