Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Phenomena in Multimodal Communication (KLUA 2018)

A Corpus-based Analysis of the Adjective Collocates of “Sorry” in Different Genres

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Mr Mahdar
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Mr Mahdar
Available Online July 2018.
DOI
10.2991/klua-18.2018.61How to use a DOI?
Keywords
collocates, corpus of contemporary American English (COCA), sorry, WordNet
Abstract

Sorry is commonly used to express apology to restore social relational agreement after the offense is committed (Deutschmann, 2003). The functions of sorry are easily recognized but it is difficult to identify what or whom the word sorry is uttered for. It is important to know the purpose why the speaker utters sorry after doing something mistake. The purpose of sorry might be recognized easily if the objective collocates of sorry is explicitly mentioned. This study aims to analyze the objective collocates of sorry through Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), and to classify the similar semantic categories of the objective collocates of sorry through WordNet. This study is analyzed based on descriptive-qualitative research design. Kwary and Arum (2011) stated that corpus linguistic research needs to be interpreted more with qualitative considerations. The data are collected by using corpus-based approach, Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), and classified by using WordNet application. The result provides the word sorry is found in each genre of COCA. The word sorry is mostly followed by the objects related to the semantic category time and event in academic, related to relative in fiction, related to abstract entity in spoken, related to the physical entity in magazine, and related to event in newspaper.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Phenomena in Multimodal Communication (KLUA 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
July 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-547-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/klua-18.2018.61How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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