National open university of nigeria school of arts and social sciences
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| bathroom. The living room is massive. I also love the design because of the courtyard. 13.18. Our new book came out yesterday. We were commended for the contents, which covers a wide range of issues in the discipline of Discourse Analysis. A renowned professor of English at the University of Lagos wrote the foreword. It has all together twenty chapters. 3.7 Collocation Some words frequently occur together than others. Most times, when you mention a particular lexical item, another one usually associated with it comes to the mind of your listener. This shows that words keep company of one another. This habitual co- occurrence of words is generally referred to as Collocation. According to JR. Firth, who first talked about collocation, you know a word by the company it keeps Collocation is one of the most important lexical devices used for cohesion. Any good text can be said to reflect the writer’s/speaker’s choice of the right kinds of words – words that collocate. Only such combinations can form a unified text. The following pair of words are said to collocate in English shoulder – shrug pharmacy – drug hospital – doctor car – accident class – teacher fish – swim bed – sleep wardrobe – clothes zoo – animal sports – stadium king – palace book – read dark – night fan – air key – door One can go beyond the pairs we have above to provide a range of words that a particular word will naturally co-occur within English. Find the examples below. Library – read, silent, borrow, catalogue, bookshelves, Car – drive, road, engine, garage, mechanic, highway, seat belt, petrol, 84 Hospital – patient, doctor, ward, outpatient, theatre, nurse, casualty, diagnose Computer – program, word-process, Internet, document, Microsoft, flash drive, CD, type Newspaper – headlines, editor, advert, editorial, news, report, beat, proofread, vendor Language – tongue, speak, write, conversation, communication linguist, Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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