A Corpus-based Analysis of the Adjective Collocates of “Sorry” in Different Genres
- 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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- © 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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TY - CONF AU - Mr Mahdar PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - A Corpus-based Analysis of the Adjective Collocates of “Sorry” in Different Genres BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Phenomena in Multimodal Communication (KLUA 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 402 EP - 405 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/klua-18.2018.61 DO - 10.2991/klua-18.2018.61 ID - Mahdar2018/07 ER -