An Investigation into English Collocations Containing Words Denoting 'Happiness'

This study aims at investigating English collocationscontaining eight adjectives denoting the states of happiness: cheerful,pleased, ecstatic, contented, glad, delighted, joyful, and thrilled. Tobe specific, it identifies collocations with high frequency of occurrence within the chosen corpus and ex...

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Main Author: Nguyễn Thị Khánh Ly
Other Authors: PGS.TS. Nguyễn Văn Long
Format: luanvanthacsi
Language:English
Published: Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ, Đại học Đà Nẵng 2024
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Online Access:https://data.ufl.udn.vn//handle/UFL/383
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Institutions: Trường Đại học Ngoại ngữ - Đại học Đà Nẵng
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Summary:This study aims at investigating English collocationscontaining eight adjectives denoting the states of happiness: cheerful,pleased, ecstatic, contented, glad, delighted, joyful, and thrilled. Tobe specific, it identifies collocations with high frequency of occurrence within the chosen corpus and examines their collocations in terms of syntactic and semantic features. Also, the study isexpected to provide suggestions for teaching and learning English collocations via online corpora.