Böcker av Dominic Stewart

This book is concerned with frequency in foreign language learning, in particular with contrastive frequency across English and Italian, and to what degree this is captured in dictionaries. With the aid of corpus analysis, this survey brings out unexpected frequency differences in the areas of lexis, grammar and collocation.

Presents a full-length treatment of semantic prosody, a concept akin to connotation but which connects crucially with typical lexical environment. This work discusses the relevance of the theory of priming in this area, and whether semantic prosody has cogency as a theoretical concept.