Abstract:

This study aims to reveal the use of semantic prosodic words which are decided before happen, cause, bring about, create, effect, provide and two new phrases because of and thanks to in 606 paragraphs by the students of Mersin University ELT Department. The other aims are to find out whether SP types of words have any differences in terms of gender, grade, group and text types, and decide text coherence and cohesion. A special corpus is designed. With Antconc 3.3, all of target words are analyzed with naked eye as Xiao and McEnery (2006) did, and how frequent each type of SP is used in percentages as Stubbs (1995) did. The study shows if there are more than one equivalent of a word in another language, the knowledge of SP may help choosing the best one. Also, appropriate semantic prosodic use may help to produce coherent and cohesive texts.  

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