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The Time when Words Changed Meaning: A Corpus Study of Semantic Change of Cloud, Apple, Swipe and Trolling
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of English.
2023 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This essay focuses on examining to what extent words meaning has changed and what changes have occurred. The study is a Corpus Linguistics analysis from the Corpus of Contemporary American English which aim is to analyse the frequency of the top ten collocates between 1990 to 2015. Data collected from the COCA will be analysed, to see if there is semantic change in the collocates frequency. The results showed a change in the collocates which indicates that semantic change has occurred between 1990 and 2019.

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2023.
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Corpora, COCA, Semantic change, specialization, generalization, narrowing, pejoration, amelioration
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-224447OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-224447DiVA, id: diva2:1819208
Available from: 2023-12-19 Created: 2023-12-13 Last updated: 2023-12-19Bibliographically approved

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