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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 RajegThis 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).
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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)
