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題名: | The Semantic Extensions of Kill and Killer in Magazine and Newspaper Corpora | 作者: | 鍾曉芳 Chung, Siaw-Fong |
貢獻者: | 英文系 | 關鍵詞: | ASD; form and function; Mandarin-speaking children; narrative; referential choice | 日期: | 2018 | 上傳時間: | 9-Feb-2018 | 摘要: | The occurrences of kill and killer are often understood as negative; however, evidence suggests that these words also have positive meanings. To many people, the use of kill and killer indicates physical death, but we found other meanings of these words. First, death is the worst possible outcome, but it is not necessarily a consequence of kill and killer. Second, killer, in particular, has a strong positive meaning that is extended from the ‘deadly’ meaning of kill. Third, we found that the figurative use of killer appeared more often in magazines and newspapers, as well as in fiction but with different purposes, when we compared the data from magazines and newspapers with those from different genres. The results obtained by analysing magazine and newspaper corpora in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) showed the importance of pragmatic interpretation in understanding meanings. | 關聯: | International Review of Pragmatics, Vol.10, No.1, pp.29-56 | 資料類型: | article | DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18773109-01001002 |
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