Semantic prosody and corpus linguistics:
The link between semantic prosody and corpus linguistics is incontestable. There are scarcely any studies on semantic prosody outside the domain of corpus linguistics. Semantic prosody is contingent upon concordancing and lexical profiles, apparently depending upon them for its recognition. Bublitz(1996:9)argues that the relationship, crucial to semantic prosody, between an item and its environment ''is best ,and, arguably, only revealed by applying computational methods to large corpora of discourse'', while for Louw (1993:159), semantic prosody is ''a phenomenon that has been only revealed computationally, and whose extent and development can only be properly traced by computational methods ''.In Louw (1997:247) ,the author states that semantic prosody ''can only be perceived using computers and corpora ''. Adolphs and Carter (2002:7) echo these sentiments when they state that the study of semantic prosody ''has only become possible with the advent of large corpora and suitable software'', as does Hunston (2002:142), who asserts that ''semantic prosody can be observed only by looking at a large number of instances of a word or phrase , because it relies on the typical use of a word or a phrase ''. Tognini-Bonelli (2004:20) writes that thanks to the computer '' the connotation pervading the vast majority of the uses of a word , like face[ as a verb] has now become tangible and observable'', and the glossary definition supplied by Baker et al.(2006:58) under 'discourse prosody ' reads :''A term ....relating to the way that words in a corpus can collocate with a related set of words or phrases, often revealing (hidden) attitudes''. Berber-Sardinha (2000:93) observes that ''semantic prosody is the connotation conveyed by the regular co-occurrence of lexical items, as revealed by the exploration of a computer-readable corpus''.
Semantic Prosody by:
Dominic Stewart(2010(