Semántica insular: corpus y archipiélagos léxicos
Keywords:
island, semantic preference, semantic prosody, sketch engine, collocation
Abstract
By examining the occurrences of a lexical item in a representative corpus it is possible to delineate the mental model of the underlying concept shared by an epistemic community (Van Dijk 2016). This socio-cognitive study uses the tools offered by the Sketch Engine platform to describe the collocational patterns of the Spanish term isla and its Italian equivalent isola in two large corpora. The analysis of the semantic preferences and the perceived semantic prosody suggests an insular narrative, highly shared in both languages, in which the island is represented with laudatory overtones, as a desirable space marked by the beauty and suggestion and, at the same time, by vulnerability.
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Chevalier, Jean; Gheerbrant, Alain (1982), Dictionnaire des Symboles, Paris, Robert Laffont.
Firth, John Rupert (1957), Papers in Linguistics 1934-51, Oxford, OUP.
Franz, Marie-Louise von (1980), Le fiabe interpretate, Torino, Bollati Boringhieri Editore.
Hunston, Susan (2007), ‘Semantic Prosody Revisited’, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 12(2), 249-68.
Louw, Bill (1993), ‘Irony in the Text or Insincerity in the Writer?—The Diagnostic Potential of Semantic Prosodies’, en Baker, Mona; Francis, Gill; Tognini-Bonelli, Elena (eds.), Text and Technology: In Honor of John Sinclair, Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 157-176.
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McIntyre, Daniel; Walker, Brian (2019), Corpus Stylistics: Theory and Practice, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.
Mirasola, Christofer (2015), ‘What Makes an Island? Land Reclamation and the South China Sea Arbitration’, Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies Paper presentado en ‘Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative’
Punte, María José (2013), ‘“Locus amoenus” de la contemporaneidad: la isla como metáfora de la escritura/“Locus amoenus” of Contemporaneity: the Island as a Metaphor for Writing’, RILCE 29 (1), 115-135.
RAE = Real Academia Española y Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2009), Nueva gramática de la lengua española, vol. 2, Madrid, Espasa.
Robin, Libby (2015), ‘No Island is an Island’, AEON Essays 14 December:
Rychlý, Pavel (2016), ‘Evaluation of the Sketch Engine Thesaurus on Analogy Queries’, en Horák, Aleš; Rychlý, Pavel; Rambousek, Adam (Eds.), Proceedings of RASLAN, Tenth Workshop on Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing, 147–152.
Sedda, Franciscu (ed.) (2019), Isole: Un arcipelago semiotico, Milano, Mimesis.
Sinclair, John (1998), ‘The Lexical Item’, Amsterdam Studies in The Theory and History of Linguistic Science Series 4, 1-24.
Stubbs, Michael (2007), ‘Quantitative Data on Multi-Word Sequences in English: The Case of the Word World’, en Hoey, Michael; Mahlberg, Michaela; Stubbs, Michael; Teubert, Wolfgang (eds.), Text, Discourse and Corpora: Theory and Analysis, London, Continuum, 163-189.
Published
2023-03-15
How to Cite
Arroyo Hernández, I. (2023). Semántica insular: corpus y archipiélagos léxicos. Rhesis. International Journal of Linguistics, Philology and Literature, 11(1), 361-378. https://doi.org/10.13125/rhesis/5653
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