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used for linguistic analysis. Corpus provides basic resources for corpus linguistics.  The  emergence  of  corpus  promotes  the  research  of  collocation,  thus making the research of semantic prosody possible. There are large amounts of corpus available,  including  different  languages  and  diverse  classifications,  such  as  COCA, COHA, and CCL, which may benefit the present researches on languages.  The  concept  ―collocation  has  been  used  since  the  18th  century.  According  to Encyclopedia  of  Language  and  Linguistics,  it  is  described  as  ―the  fact  that  words co-occurred  frequently  was noticed in Biblical concordances (Krishnamurthy, 2008: 596). However, it is widely accepted that J. R. Firth, father of collocation, has brought up the concept of ―collocation firstly in modern linguistics.   Since Firth (1957: 12) in 1950s offered the following definition, ―collocations of a given word are statements of the habitual or customary place of that word, which has  been  widely  accepted  by  corpus  linguists,  and  the  studies  on  collocation  have sprung  up.  Thus  collocation  becomes  the  hot  topic  in  present  corpus  linguistics. Mc Intosh  (1967:  230)  brought  out  the  idea  of  ―collocational  range,  and  thought every word item had its own collocational range.  
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2.2 Research on Semantic Prosody 
Semantic  prosody  was  one  of  the  most  significant  contributions  in  corpus linguistics  so  far  (Sinclair,  2003:  178),  opening  up  a  new  horizon  for  corpus linguistics research. It is of great significance to catch underlying semantic meanings by understanding the combination and relationship of semantic prosody.  The notion of semantic prosody arising from corpus linguistics and reflecting the realization  that  lexical  items  were  habitually  associated  with  particular  connotations (Louw,  1993;  Siepmann,  2005;  Sinclair,  1991;  Stubbs,  1995)  and  had  attracted considerable attention since its advent in the early 1990s. The term ―prosody, coined by  Firth  (1957), traditionally  referred  to  the phonological  coloring  spreading  beyond segmental  boundaries.  Semantic  prosody,  also  termed  as  semantic  harmony  or semantic  association,  is  a  new  word  coined  by  Sinclair,  the  chief  editor  of Collins-COBUID  English  dictionary,  inspired  by  Firth‘s  notion  of  phonological prosody. Sinclair found  that ―many uses of  words and phrases show a tendency to occur  in  a  certain  semantic  environment  (Sinclair,  1991:  112).  Later  the  idea  is accepted by many 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。