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Googling for opposites: a web-based study of antonym canonicity

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

This paper seeks to explain why some semantically-opposed word pairs are more likely to be seen as canonical antonyms (for example, cold/hot) than others (icy/scorching, cold/fiery, freezing/hot, etc.). Specifically, it builds on research which has demonstrated that, in discourse, antonyms are inclined to favour certain frames, such as ‘X and Y alike’, ‘from X to Y’ and ‘either X or Y’ (Justeson and Katz, 1991; etc.), and to serve a limited range of discourse functions (Jones, 2002). Our premise is that the more canonical an antonym pair is, the greater the fidelity with which it will occupy such frames. Since an extremely large corpus is needed to identify meaningful patterns of co-occurrence, we turn to Internet data for this research. As well as enabling the notion of antonym canonicity to be revisited from a more empirical perspective, this approach also allows us to evaluate the appropriateness (and assess the risks) of using the World Wide Web as a corpus for studies into certain types of low-frequency textual phenomena.

Publiceringsår

2007

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

129-154

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Corpora

Volym

2

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Edinburgh University Press

Ämne

  • Languages and Literature
  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Nyckelord

  • antonymy
  • corpus linguistics
  • antonym canonicity
  • semantics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1755-1676