Verb-Noun Collocations In Newspaper Editorials In Ghana: A Corpus-Based Analysis

IF 0.8 Q2 AREA STUDIES Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-30 DOI:10.4314/contjas.v9i2.4

M. Quarcoo, Hamidu Alhassan, A. Addae

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This paper is a corpus-based study which aims at profiling the most frequent verb-noun collocations and their communicative functions in newspaper editorials in Ghana. In all, a total of 92,927 running words were culled from 220 newspaper editorials from The Ghanaian Times and The Daily Graphic, which were published in the 2016 and 2017 news years, for compilation of a specialised corpus for the study. From the collocation tab of the AntConc corpus software, sixty-seven Verb-Noun Collocations were found to constitute the most frequently occurring collocations in the newspaper editorials under study. The corpus revealed that both predictive and open Verb-Noun Collocations which alternate at the left and right sides on the collocation window span are mostly used by newspaper editorial writers in Ghana. Again, it was observed that phrasal patterns of a noun collocate differed according to its position on either the left or right side of a verb node. The semantic prosodies of the profiled verb-noun collocations revealed five major discourses which constituted the most discussed issues in the newspaper editorials published in 2016 and 2017 news years.These issues were governance, politics and elections, peace and security, law and order, and corruption.

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加纳报纸社论中的动名词搭配:基于语料库的分析

本文是一项基于语料库的研究，旨在分析加纳报纸社论中最常见的动词-名词搭配及其交际功能。总的来说，从2016年和2017年出版的《加纳时报》和《每日图形报》的220篇报纸社论中挑选了92927个常用词，用于编制研究的专门语料库。从AntConc语料库软件的搭配标签中，我们发现了67种动词名词搭配构成了所研究的报纸社论中最常见的搭配。语料库显示，加纳报纸社论作者多使用预测性动词名词搭配和开放式动词名词搭配，在搭配窗口的左右两侧交替使用。再一次，我们观察到名词搭配的短语模式根据其在动词节点的左侧或右侧的位置而不同。从动名搭配的语义韵律分析中，我们可以发现2016年和2017年新闻年度报纸社论中讨论最多的五大话语。这些问题是治理、政治和选举、和平与安全、法律和秩序以及腐败。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Contemporary African Studies (JCAS) is an interdisciplinary journal seeking to promote an African-centred scholarly understanding of societies on the continent and their location within the global political economy. Its scope extends across a wide range of social science and humanities disciplines with topics covered including, but not limited to, culture, development, education, environmental questions, gender, government, labour, land, leadership, political economy politics, social movements, sociology of knowledge and welfare. JCAS welcomes contributions reviewing general trends in the academic literature with a specific focus on debates and developments in Africa as part of a broader aim of contributing towards the development of viable communities of African scholarship. The journal publishes original research articles, book reviews, notes from the field, debates, research reports and occasional review essays. It also publishes special issues and welcomes proposals for new topics. JCAS is published four times a year, in January, April, July and October.