发展occurs over 1,056 times per million running Chinese characters andranks the 57th of all the words in MCC. Its preferred translation equivalent,DEVELOPMENT, is not as frequent and occurs 272 times per millionrunning words.6.2.2.1 Corpus findings of 发展It ...[继续阅读]

    In the previous chapter, it was shown how concordance data could revealdetails of context, and of typical collocational and colligational behavior, whichenabled us to examine the pragmatic meanings of HFNs and to distinguishamong items in English and Chin...[继续阅读]

    A central aim of the present contrastive study is to make explicit thepragmatic meanings of the selected HFNs and their corresponding forms.The starting point of any contrastive study relates to questions like ‘howdo we know what to compare?’. In contrast...[继续阅读]

    This chapter first makes a general discussion and summarizes the majorfindings. The theoretical and pedagogical implications of these findings aredealt with in Section 7.3. Finally, the limitations of the present study andrecommendations for future resear...[继续阅读]

    The research method that has been employed in this study is basicallycorpus-driven, which concentrates on the contextual information of theconcordance lines. Attitudinal meaning that is conveyed by the co-selectedwords is identif ied against the contextua...[继续阅读]

    Despite the fact that this study has yielded informative results and reachedconclusions that to some degree have answered the research questions, thereare some limitations that remain to be solved. Firstly, the sample, thoughnot small in fact, was not suf...[继续阅读]

    As one of the most frequent words in English, LIFE is complicated inmeaning. It gets more than ten senses under 44 sub-headings in the OxfordAdvanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary (hereinafter referred to asOALECD) (1997).4.2.1.1 The concordance-ba...[继续阅读]

    As Table 5-1 shows, nine groups of HFNs in English and Chinese will beexamined in the present and next chapter. They are chosen basically becausethey are frequently occurring words and for their high MC values. Amongstthem, TIME has the highest frequency ...[继续阅读]

    As one of the most frequent words in Chinese, 生活occurs 9,321 times inMCC, almost 470 times per million running characters. It has two major sensesin the Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (CCD)(2002). The propositionalmeaning of 生活 is “life, or activities of...[继续阅读]

    It is beyond doubt that frequency relates to several aspects of behaviorand features of words and their meanings. As pointed out by Kilgarriff (1997:135), a central fact about a word is how frequent it is. The Noun, which makesup the majority of items in ...[继续阅读]