Author(s)

Chao Wu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ International Education School, Wuchang Institute of Technology, Wuhan, China

Corresponding Author

Chao Wu

ABSTRACT

This article attempts to analyze the differences and similarities in domain, collocation, and semantic prosody of the Chinese synonyms “jiǎn, qiē, kǎn, gē” in the Chinese native language corpus and the learner corpus, using the online corpus retrieval tool Sketch Engine. Firstly, the usage domains and word frequency distributions of these four verbs in the corpus are statistically analyzed. Secondly, the common collocations of these four verbs are retrieved and sorted based on LogDice values, and their distributions are visually presented through charts. Additionally, the “lexical sketch contrastive analysis” function is used to further compare and analyze the differences in collocations among these four words. Finally, by observing the collocations of these four verbs, the semantic prosody of each word is summarized. It is believed that through corpus-based comparative research, this method can serve as a new approach for distinguishing Chinese synonyms, and further promote the application of corpora in international Chinese education.

KEYWORDS

International Chinese education, synonyms, corpus, semantic prosody

CITE THIS PAPER

Chao Wu, Comparison Study of Synonyms in the Perspective of International Chinese Education. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 17-26. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060804.

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