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題名 以量化語料庫方法研究中文“導致”的三個近義詞在不同主題下之語義韻
A study of semantic prosody of three near-synonyms of cause in Mandarin Chinese under different topics: A quantitative corpus-based perspective
作者 巫孟宸
Wu, Meng-Chen
貢獻者 陳正賢<br>萬依萍
Chen, Cheng-Hsien<br>Wan, I-Ping
巫孟宸
Wu, Meng-Chen
關鍵詞 語義韻
語義偏好
主題
規則化評估
語義網路分析
Semantic prosody
Semantic preference
Topic
Rule-based evaluation
Semantic network analysis
日期 2019
上傳時間 1-四月-2019 14:34:51 (UTC+8)
摘要 本論文之主要目的為探討文本主題如何影響一個詞彙的語義韻 (semantic prosody)。主題在此定義為在新聞類文體中不同類別的文章,其涵蓋文本的範圍小於語域 (register)之範圍。我們查驗了一個混合語義韻之詞 (產生),與兩個強語義韻之詞 (釀成、促成)在蘋果日報中不同主題下的語義韻分布。我們以規則化的詞語所引列方法來決定這三個詞的語義韻分布,並運用語義網路分析來探尋它們的典型語意場 (semantic field)。研究結果指出,主題對產生的語義韻有中等強烈的影響,但對釀成與促成反而影響程度不大,因此建議了詞彙的語義韻之主題依賴。我們的分析結果指出,新聞文章下的某一主題之內容可能是強化正/負語義韻趨勢的來源,同時揭示了主題下某一詞彙的常規用法。
The objective of this study is to investigate how the semantic prosody (SP) of a lexical item may be mediated by the topic of the texts. Topic is defined as different categories of articles in news genre, covering a smaller scope of texts than register. In particular, we examine the SP distributions of three near synonyms: a mixed-SP node word, i.e., chansheng, and two strong-SP node words, i.e., niangcheng and cucheng, under different topics in the self-collected Apple Daily News corpus. We determine their SP distributions via a rule-based concordance line analysis on the Apple Daily News corpus and utilize semantic network analysis to further discover their prototypical semantic fields. The results indicate that topic has moderately strong effect on chansheng, a mixed-SP node word, but weak effect on niangcheng and cucheng, strong-SP node words, suggesting the topic-dependency of the lexical SP. Our analysis suggests that the subject matters of the news articles under a given topic may be the source that intensifies the positive/negative SP tendency of a node word, and also reveals the conventionalized usage of the node word under the topic.
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Bednarek, Monika. (2008). Semantic preference and semantic prosody re-examined. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 4, 119-139. doi:10.1515/CLLT.2008.006
Blei, David M, Ng, Andrew Y, & Jordan, Michael I. (2003). Latent dirichlet allocation. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3, 993-1022. doi:10.1162/jmlr.2003.3.4-5.993
Cohen, Stanley, & Young, Jock. (1981). The manufacture of news: Social problems, deviance and the mass media. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Pubns.
Ellis, Nick C, & Ogden, Dave C. (2017). Thinking about multiword constructions: Usage‐based approaches to acquisition and processing. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9, 604-620. doi:10.1111/tops.12256
Ellis, Nick C, Römer, Ute, & O`Donnell, Matthew Brook. (2016). Usage-based approaches to language acquisition and processing: Cognitive and corpus investigations of construction grammar. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Limited.
Evert, Stefan. (2008). Corpora and collocations. In A. Lüdeling & M. Kytö (Eds.), Corpus linguistics. An international handbook (Vol. 2, pp. 1212-1248). Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter.
Freeman, Linton C. (1977). A set of measures of centrality based on betweenness. Sociometry, 35-41. doi:10.2307/3033543
Gablasova, Dana , Brezina , Vaclav, & McEnery, Tony. (2017). Collocations in corpus‐based language learning research: Identifying, comparing, and interpreting the evidence. Language Learning, 67, 155-179. doi:10.1111/lang.12225
Gries, Stefan Th. (2013). 50-something years of work on collocations. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 18, 137-166. doi:10.1075/ijcl.18.1.09gri
Griffiths, Thomas L, & Steyvers, Mark. (2004). Finding scientific topics. Proceedings of the National academy of Sciences, 101, 5228-5235. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307752101
Halliday, M.A.K., & Hasan, Ruqaiya. (1989). Language, context, and text: Aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Hoey, Michael. (1991). Pattern of lexis in text. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Huang, Chu-Ren, & Hsieh, Shu-Kai. (2010). Infrastructure for cross-lingual knowledge representation-towards multilingualism in linguistic studies. Taiwan NSC-granted Research Project (NSC 96-2411-H-003-061-MY3).
Huang, Ting-Hao, Chen, Yun-Nung, & Kong, Lingpeng. (2015). Acbima: Advanced Chinese bi-character word morphological analyzer. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the Eighth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing.
Huang, Ting-Hao, Ku, Lun-Wei, & Chen, Hsin-Hsi. (2010). Predicting morphological types of Chinese bi-character words by machine learning approaches. Paper presented at the Proceedings of LREC.
Hunston, Susan. (1995). A corpus study of some English verbs of attribution. Functions of Language, 2, 133-158. doi:10.1075/fol.2.2.02hun
Hunston, Susan. (2004). Counting the uncountable: problems of identifying evaluation in a text and in a corpus. In A. Partington, J. Morley, & L. Haarman (Eds.), Corpora and Discourse (Vol. 9, pp. 157-188). Bern, CH: Peter Lang.
Hunston, Susan. (2007). Semantic prosody revisited. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 12, 249-268. doi:10.1075/ijcl.12.2.09hun
Khedr, Ayman E, Salama, S.E., & Yaseen, Nagwa. (2017). Predicting stock market behavior using data mining technique and news sentiment analysis. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications, 9, 22. doi:10.5815/ijisa.2017.07.03
Krestel, Ralf, Fankhauser, Peter, & Nejdl, Wolfgang. (2009). Latent dirichlet allocation for tag recommendation. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Recommender systems.
Ku, Lun-Wei, Liang, Yu-Ting, & Chen, Hsin-Hsi. (2006). Opinion extraction, summarization and tracking in news and blog corpora. Paper presented at the Proceedings of AAAI.
Li, Meixia, & Jiao, Aihui. (2017). The study of semantic prosody of Chinese logical resultative formulae: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis approach. GSTF Journal of Law and Social Sciences (JLSS), 2.
Louw, Bill. (1993). Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies. Text and technology: In honour of John Sinclair, 240, 251.
Louw, Bill. (2000). Contextual prosodic theory: Bringing semantic prosodies to life. Words in context: A tribute to John Sinclair on his retirement, 48-94.
Manning, Christopher D., & Schütze, Hinrich. (1999). Foundations of statistical natural language processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Morley, John, & Partington, Alan. (2009). A few frequently asked questions about semantic—or evaluative—prosody. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 14, 139-158. doi:10.1075/ijcl.14.2.01mor
O`Halloran, Kieran. (2007). Critical discourse analysis and the corpus-informed interpretation of metaphor at the register level. Applied Linguistics, 28, 1-24. doi:10.1093/applin/aml046
Pang, Bo, & Lee, Lillian. (2008). Opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 2, 1-135. doi:10.1561/1500000011
Partington, Alan. (1998). Patterns and meanings: Using corpora for English language research and teaching (Vol. 2). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Partington, Alan. (2004). "Utterly content in each other`s company": Semantic prosody and semantic preference. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 9, 131-156. doi:10.1075/ijcl.9.1.07par
Partington, Alan. (2017). Evaluative clash, evaluative cohesion and how we actually read evaluation in texts. Journal of Pragmatics, 117, 190-203. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2017.06.008
Pennington, Jeffrey, Socher, Richard, & Manning, Christopher. (2014). Glove: Global vectors for word representation. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2014 conference on empirical methods in natural language processing (EMNLP).
Rosch, Eleanor. (1975). Cognitive representations of semantic categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 104, 192. doi:10.1037/0096-3445.104.3.192
Sinclair, John. (1991). Corpus, concordance, collocation. London, UK: Oxford University Press.
Sinclair, John. (2004). The search for units of meaning Trust the Text (pp. 34-58). London, UK: Routledge.
Stefanowitsch, Anatol, & Gries, Stefan Th. (2003). Collostructions: Investigating the interaction of words and constructions. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 8, 209-243. doi:10.1075/ijcl.8.2.03ste
Stubbs, Michael. (1995). Collocations and semantic profiles: On the cause of the trouble with quantitative studies. Functions of Language, 2, 23-55. doi:10.1075/fol.2.1.03stu
Stubbs, Michael. (2001a). On inference theories and code theories: Corpus evidence for semantic schemas. Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, 21, 437-465. doi:10.1515/text.2001.007
Stubbs, Michael. (2001b). Words and phrases: Corpus studies of lexical semantics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
Wang, Shih-Ming, & Ku, Lun-Wei. (2016). ANTUSD: A large Chinese sentiment dictionary. Paper presented at the LREC.
Wei, Naixing, & Li, Xiaohong. (2014). Exploring semantic preference and semantic prosody across English and Chinese: Their roles for cross-linguistic equivalence. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 10, 103-138. doi:10.1515/cllt-2013-0018
Xiao, Richard, & McEnery, Tony. (2006). Collocation, semantic prosody, and near synonymy: A cross-linguistic perspective. Applied Linguistics, 27, 103-129. doi:10.1093/applin/ami045
描述 碩士
國立政治大學
語言學研究所
104555004
資料來源 http://thesis.lib.nccu.edu.tw/record/#G0104555004
資料類型 thesis
dc.contributor.advisor 陳正賢<br>萬依萍zh_TW
dc.contributor.advisor Chen, Cheng-Hsien<br>Wan, I-Pingen_US
dc.contributor.author (作者) 巫孟宸zh_TW
dc.contributor.author (作者) Wu, Meng-Chenen_US
dc.creator (作者) 巫孟宸zh_TW
dc.creator (作者) Wu, Meng-Chenen_US
dc.date (日期) 2019en_US
dc.date.accessioned 1-四月-2019 14:34:51 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.available 1-四月-2019 14:34:51 (UTC+8)-
dc.date.issued (上傳時間) 1-四月-2019 14:34:51 (UTC+8)-
dc.identifier (其他 識別碼) G0104555004en_US
dc.identifier.uri (URI) http://nccur.lib.nccu.edu.tw/handle/140.119/122741-
dc.description (描述) 碩士zh_TW
dc.description (描述) 國立政治大學zh_TW
dc.description (描述) 語言學研究所zh_TW
dc.description (描述) 104555004zh_TW
dc.description.abstract (摘要) 本論文之主要目的為探討文本主題如何影響一個詞彙的語義韻 (semantic prosody)。主題在此定義為在新聞類文體中不同類別的文章,其涵蓋文本的範圍小於語域 (register)之範圍。我們查驗了一個混合語義韻之詞 (產生),與兩個強語義韻之詞 (釀成、促成)在蘋果日報中不同主題下的語義韻分布。我們以規則化的詞語所引列方法來決定這三個詞的語義韻分布,並運用語義網路分析來探尋它們的典型語意場 (semantic field)。研究結果指出,主題對產生的語義韻有中等強烈的影響,但對釀成與促成反而影響程度不大,因此建議了詞彙的語義韻之主題依賴。我們的分析結果指出,新聞文章下的某一主題之內容可能是強化正/負語義韻趨勢的來源,同時揭示了主題下某一詞彙的常規用法。zh_TW
dc.description.abstract (摘要) The objective of this study is to investigate how the semantic prosody (SP) of a lexical item may be mediated by the topic of the texts. Topic is defined as different categories of articles in news genre, covering a smaller scope of texts than register. In particular, we examine the SP distributions of three near synonyms: a mixed-SP node word, i.e., chansheng, and two strong-SP node words, i.e., niangcheng and cucheng, under different topics in the self-collected Apple Daily News corpus. We determine their SP distributions via a rule-based concordance line analysis on the Apple Daily News corpus and utilize semantic network analysis to further discover their prototypical semantic fields. The results indicate that topic has moderately strong effect on chansheng, a mixed-SP node word, but weak effect on niangcheng and cucheng, strong-SP node words, suggesting the topic-dependency of the lexical SP. Our analysis suggests that the subject matters of the news articles under a given topic may be the source that intensifies the positive/negative SP tendency of a node word, and also reveals the conventionalized usage of the node word under the topic.en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents Abstract 12
1 Introduction 13
2 Literature Review 18
2.1 Semantic Prosody 18
2.2 Context-dependent Semantic Prosody 20
2.3 Semantic Prosody of CAUSE 21
2.3.1 Significant Collocate Analysis 21
2.3.2 Concordance Line Analysis 22
2.4 Semantic Network Analysis 24
3 Methodology 27
3.1 Data Collection and Preprocessing 28
3.1.1 Data Source 28
3.1.2 Data Preprocessing 28
3.2 Automatic Concordance Line Analysis 31
3.2.1 ANTUSD 31
3.2.2 Judgement of Evaluative Meanings of Concordances and the SP of a Node Word 34
3.3 Semantic Network Analysis 37
3.3.1 Attracted Collocates Extraction 37
3.3.2 Semantic Network Construction 41
4 Results 45
4.1 Semantic Prosody of Chansheng 45
4.1.1 Concordance Semantic Prosody Analysis 45
4.1.2 Network Analysis 48
4.2 Semantic Prosody of Niangcheng 63
4.2.1 Concordance Semantic Prosody Analysis 63
4.2.2 Network Analysis 65
4.3 Semantic Prosody of Cucheng 71
4.3.1 Concordance Semantic Prosody Analysis 71
4.3.2 Network Analysis 73
4.4 Internal Summary 74
5. Discussion 77
5.1 Topics Triggering Positive SP 79
5.2 Topics Triggering Negative SP 86
5.3 Topics Triggering Positive and Negative SP 94
6. Conclusion 98
References 101
Appendix 106
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dc.subject (關鍵詞) 語義韻zh_TW
dc.subject (關鍵詞) 語義偏好zh_TW
dc.subject (關鍵詞) 主題zh_TW
dc.subject (關鍵詞) 規則化評估zh_TW
dc.subject (關鍵詞) 語義網路分析zh_TW
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Semantic prosodyen_US
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Semantic preferenceen_US
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Topicen_US
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Rule-based evaluationen_US
dc.subject (關鍵詞) Semantic network analysisen_US
dc.title (題名) 以量化語料庫方法研究中文“導致”的三個近義詞在不同主題下之語義韻zh_TW
dc.title (題名) A study of semantic prosody of three near-synonyms of cause in Mandarin Chinese under different topics: A quantitative corpus-based perspectiveen_US
dc.type (資料類型) thesisen_US
dc.relation.reference (參考文獻) Almende, B.V., Benoit, Thieurmel, & Titouan, Robert. (2018). visNetwork: Network visualization using’vis. js’ library. R package version 2.0.5. Retrieved from https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=visNetwork
Bednarek, Monika. (2008). Semantic preference and semantic prosody re-examined. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 4, 119-139. doi:10.1515/CLLT.2008.006
Blei, David M, Ng, Andrew Y, & Jordan, Michael I. (2003). Latent dirichlet allocation. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3, 993-1022. doi:10.1162/jmlr.2003.3.4-5.993
Cohen, Stanley, & Young, Jock. (1981). The manufacture of news: Social problems, deviance and the mass media. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Pubns.
Ellis, Nick C, & Ogden, Dave C. (2017). Thinking about multiword constructions: Usage‐based approaches to acquisition and processing. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9, 604-620. doi:10.1111/tops.12256
Ellis, Nick C, Römer, Ute, & O`Donnell, Matthew Brook. (2016). Usage-based approaches to language acquisition and processing: Cognitive and corpus investigations of construction grammar. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Limited.
Evert, Stefan. (2008). Corpora and collocations. In A. Lüdeling & M. Kytö (Eds.), Corpus linguistics. An international handbook (Vol. 2, pp. 1212-1248). Berlin, Germany: de Gruyter.
Freeman, Linton C. (1977). A set of measures of centrality based on betweenness. Sociometry, 35-41. doi:10.2307/3033543
Gablasova, Dana , Brezina , Vaclav, & McEnery, Tony. (2017). Collocations in corpus‐based language learning research: Identifying, comparing, and interpreting the evidence. Language Learning, 67, 155-179. doi:10.1111/lang.12225
Gries, Stefan Th. (2013). 50-something years of work on collocations. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 18, 137-166. doi:10.1075/ijcl.18.1.09gri
Griffiths, Thomas L, & Steyvers, Mark. (2004). Finding scientific topics. Proceedings of the National academy of Sciences, 101, 5228-5235. doi:10.1073/pnas.0307752101
Halliday, M.A.K., & Hasan, Ruqaiya. (1989). Language, context, and text: Aspects of language in a social-semiotic perspective. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Hoey, Michael. (1991). Pattern of lexis in text. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Huang, Chu-Ren, & Hsieh, Shu-Kai. (2010). Infrastructure for cross-lingual knowledge representation-towards multilingualism in linguistic studies. Taiwan NSC-granted Research Project (NSC 96-2411-H-003-061-MY3).
Huang, Ting-Hao, Chen, Yun-Nung, & Kong, Lingpeng. (2015). Acbima: Advanced Chinese bi-character word morphological analyzer. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the Eighth SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing.
Huang, Ting-Hao, Ku, Lun-Wei, & Chen, Hsin-Hsi. (2010). Predicting morphological types of Chinese bi-character words by machine learning approaches. Paper presented at the Proceedings of LREC.
Hunston, Susan. (1995). A corpus study of some English verbs of attribution. Functions of Language, 2, 133-158. doi:10.1075/fol.2.2.02hun
Hunston, Susan. (2004). Counting the uncountable: problems of identifying evaluation in a text and in a corpus. In A. Partington, J. Morley, & L. Haarman (Eds.), Corpora and Discourse (Vol. 9, pp. 157-188). Bern, CH: Peter Lang.
Hunston, Susan. (2007). Semantic prosody revisited. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 12, 249-268. doi:10.1075/ijcl.12.2.09hun
Khedr, Ayman E, Salama, S.E., & Yaseen, Nagwa. (2017). Predicting stock market behavior using data mining technique and news sentiment analysis. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications, 9, 22. doi:10.5815/ijisa.2017.07.03
Krestel, Ralf, Fankhauser, Peter, & Nejdl, Wolfgang. (2009). Latent dirichlet allocation for tag recommendation. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the third ACM conference on Recommender systems.
Ku, Lun-Wei, Liang, Yu-Ting, & Chen, Hsin-Hsi. (2006). Opinion extraction, summarization and tracking in news and blog corpora. Paper presented at the Proceedings of AAAI.
Li, Meixia, & Jiao, Aihui. (2017). The study of semantic prosody of Chinese logical resultative formulae: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis approach. GSTF Journal of Law and Social Sciences (JLSS), 2.
Louw, Bill. (1993). Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies. Text and technology: In honour of John Sinclair, 240, 251.
Louw, Bill. (2000). Contextual prosodic theory: Bringing semantic prosodies to life. Words in context: A tribute to John Sinclair on his retirement, 48-94.
Manning, Christopher D., & Schütze, Hinrich. (1999). Foundations of statistical natural language processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Morley, John, & Partington, Alan. (2009). A few frequently asked questions about semantic—or evaluative—prosody. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 14, 139-158. doi:10.1075/ijcl.14.2.01mor
O`Halloran, Kieran. (2007). Critical discourse analysis and the corpus-informed interpretation of metaphor at the register level. Applied Linguistics, 28, 1-24. doi:10.1093/applin/aml046
Pang, Bo, & Lee, Lillian. (2008). Opinion mining and sentiment analysis. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, 2, 1-135. doi:10.1561/1500000011
Partington, Alan. (1998). Patterns and meanings: Using corpora for English language research and teaching (Vol. 2). Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Partington, Alan. (2004). "Utterly content in each other`s company": Semantic prosody and semantic preference. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 9, 131-156. doi:10.1075/ijcl.9.1.07par
Partington, Alan. (2017). Evaluative clash, evaluative cohesion and how we actually read evaluation in texts. Journal of Pragmatics, 117, 190-203. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2017.06.008
Pennington, Jeffrey, Socher, Richard, & Manning, Christopher. (2014). Glove: Global vectors for word representation. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 2014 conference on empirical methods in natural language processing (EMNLP).
Rosch, Eleanor. (1975). Cognitive representations of semantic categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General, 104, 192. doi:10.1037/0096-3445.104.3.192
Sinclair, John. (1991). Corpus, concordance, collocation. London, UK: Oxford University Press.
Sinclair, John. (2004). The search for units of meaning Trust the Text (pp. 34-58). London, UK: Routledge.
Stefanowitsch, Anatol, & Gries, Stefan Th. (2003). Collostructions: Investigating the interaction of words and constructions. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 8, 209-243. doi:10.1075/ijcl.8.2.03ste
Stubbs, Michael. (1995). Collocations and semantic profiles: On the cause of the trouble with quantitative studies. Functions of Language, 2, 23-55. doi:10.1075/fol.2.1.03stu
Stubbs, Michael. (2001a). On inference theories and code theories: Corpus evidence for semantic schemas. Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse, 21, 437-465. doi:10.1515/text.2001.007
Stubbs, Michael. (2001b). Words and phrases: Corpus studies of lexical semantics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
Wang, Shih-Ming, & Ku, Lun-Wei. (2016). ANTUSD: A large Chinese sentiment dictionary. Paper presented at the LREC.
Wei, Naixing, & Li, Xiaohong. (2014). Exploring semantic preference and semantic prosody across English and Chinese: Their roles for cross-linguistic equivalence. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 10, 103-138. doi:10.1515/cllt-2013-0018
Xiao, Richard, & McEnery, Tony. (2006). Collocation, semantic prosody, and near synonymy: A cross-linguistic perspective. Applied Linguistics, 27, 103-129. doi:10.1093/applin/ami045
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dc.identifier.doi (DOI) 10.6814/THE.NCCU.GIL.001.2019.A07en_US