Verb-Noun Collocations In Newspaper Editorials In Ghana: A Corpus-Based Analysis.
This paper is a corpus-based study which aims at profiling the most frequent verb-noun collocations and their communicative functions in newspaper editorials in Ghana. In all, a total of 92,927 running words were culled from 220 newspaper editorials from The Ghanaian Times and The Daily Graphic, whi...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary Journal of African Studies Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 85 - 120 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=164574263&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 164574263 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 23436530 GXMX jtl: Contemporary Journal of African Studies issn: 23436530 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2022 vid: 9 iid: 2 pid: 73869 pub: Institute of African Studies artinfo: ui: 164574263 10.4314/contjas.v9i2.4 ppf: 85 ppct: 35 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 3.7MB tig: atl: Verb-Noun Collocations In Newspaper Editorials In Ghana: A Corpus-Based Analysis. aug: au: Alhassan, Hamidu Bosompemaa Quarcoo, Millicent Akosua Aikins, Addae affil: PhD student at the Department of English Education, University of Education, Winneba Senior lecturer at the Department of English Education, University of Education, Winneba Lecturer of English at the Department of Basic Education, University of Education, Winneba su: Editorial writing Collocation (Linguistics) Newspaper publishing Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) Nouns New Year's resolutions Ghana sug: subj: Ghana Editorial writing Collocation (Linguistics) Newspaper publishing Prosodic analysis (Linguistics) Nouns New Year's resolutions keyword: Antconc Collocate Collocation Collocation tab Corpus discourses Newspaper editorials Node Predictive and Open éditoriaux de journaux discours noeud onglet Collocation prédictif et ouvert ab: This paper is a corpus-based study which aims at profiling the most frequent verb-noun collocations and their communicative functions in newspaper editorials in Ghana. In all, a total of 92,927 running words were culled from 220 newspaper editorials from The Ghanaian Times and The Daily Graphic, which were published in the 2016 and 2017 news years, for compilation of a specialised corpus for the study. From the collocation tab of the AntConc corpus software, sixty-seven Verb-Noun Collocations were found to constitute the most frequently occurring collocations in the newspaper editorials under study. The corpus revealed that both predictive and open Verb-Noun Collocations which alternate at the left and right sides on the collocation window span are mostly used by newspaper editorial writers in Ghana. Again, it was observed that phrasal patterns of a noun collocate differed according to its position on either the left or right side of a verb node. The semantic prosodies of the profiled verb-noun collocations revealed five major discourses which constituted the most discussed issues in the newspaper editorials published in 2016 and 2017 news years. These issues were governance, politics and elections, peace and security, law and order, and corruption. Cet article est une étude basée sur le corpus, ayant pour but de profiler les collocations verbo-nominales les plus fréquentes et leurs fonctions communicatives dans les éditoriaux de journaux au Ghana. Nous avons extrait un total de 92 927 mots courants de 220 éditoriaux des journaux Ghanaian Times et Daily Graphic publiés en 2016 et 2017, pour compiler un corpus spécialisé pour l'étude. À partir de l'onglet Collocation du logiciel de corpus AntConc, nous avons repéré soixante-sept collocations verbe-nom pour constituer les collocations les plus fréquentes dans les éditoriaux de journaux étudiés. Le corpus révéla que les collocations verbo-nominales prédictives et ouvertes, qui alternent à gauche et à droite de la fenêtre Collocation, sont principalement utilisées par les éditorialistes des journaux au Ghana. Par ailleurs, nous observâmes que les modèles phrastiques d'une collocation nominale différèrent en fonction de la position de celleci à gauche ou à droite d'un noeud verbal. Les prosodies sémantiques des collocations verbo-nominales profilées révélèrent cinq discours majeurs qui constituèrent les sujets les plus discutés dans les éditoriaux des journaux publiés en 2016 et 2017 dont la gouvernance, la politique et les élections, la paix et la sécurité, la loi et l'ordre, et la corruption. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Contemporary Journal of African Studies is the property of Institute of African Studies and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Contemporary Journal of African Studies holder: Institute of African Studies dt: @attributes: year: 2022 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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