A Corpus-Based Study of Phrasal Verbs with Key Meanings in TED Talks
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Abstract
While TED talks with their video format are popular teaching materials, limited corpus studies have been conducted to provide systematic evidence on their linguistic features. Further, hardly any of the existing research has examined the multi-word units of these talks, particularly phrasal verbs (PVs), a group of polysemous, high-frequency English lexical items. Following Liu and Myers’ approach (2020), this study characterized the most common meaning senses of 150 PVs (Garnier and Schmitt, Language Teaching Research, 19, 645–666, 2015) among 500 TED talk transcripts based on corpus analyses with their frequency information of meaning senses. Among the final 148 PV types identified in our TED corpus, 61 of them have one dominant meaning sense (over 80% incidents). With contrasting analyses of PV semantic information between the TED corpus and COCA sub-corpora, we found that PVs in the TED corpus are not similar to either the COCA spoken or academic writing register (contrasted in Liu and Myers). Then, a frequency-based TED PV list was compiled as a pedagogical reference to facilitate vocabulary learning via watching TED Talks. We suggest instructors to teach the 61 PVs first, then move to the others with more diversified meaning to alleviate students’ memory burden of learning these multi-word units.
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