การศึกษาคำพ้องความหมายภาษาอังกฤษโดยใช้ภาษาศาสตร์คลังข้อมูล: Rich and Wealthy

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This paper addressed the differences and similarities between two synonyms adjectives: rich and wealthy. Two learners' dictionaries and the British National Corpus (BNC) were used to investigate their noun collocates. The findings indicate that some nouns follow either rich or wealthy, while few nouns collocate with both adjectives, e.g., wealthy men, rich men, rich mixture, rich history but not a wealthy mixture, and wealthy history. Drawing on the corpus data, it is found that they differ in collocation, colligation, semantic preference, and semantic prosody. In terms of the degree of formality, they tend to occur in informal genres. Thus, English language teachers should incorporate multi-word units of these two words into multi-word unit pedagogy when teaching these synonymous words.