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Visualising diachronic change in the collocational profiles of lexical near-synonyms

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posted on 2019-02-27, 23:44 authored by Gede Primahadi Wijaya RajegGede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg, I Made RajegI Made Rajeg
This chapter presents a case study on diachronic change in the nominal collocational profiles of two near-synonymous temperature adjectives in English, i.e. hot and warm, over the last one and a half centuries (1860s-2000s). The main aim is to capture such diachronic distribution by means of a visualisation technique called Motion Chart on the basis of data from the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA).

To cite, please click the dark pink Cite button. Previous version (Version 2) includes two image files included in the paper; select the previous version from the Version dropdown button below the title above. For the data and R codes to generate the analysis and graphics, see the accompanying figshare repository. The PDF tutorial for generating the graphs with the R codes is available from Zenodo.

This contribution chapter appeared in a festschrift entitled CAHAYA BAHASA, in honour of Prof. I Gusti Made Sutjaja (Sudipa, I N. & Primahadi Wijaya R, G. (eds.). 2014. Cahaya Bahasa. Denpasar: Swasta Nulus)

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