Nareethip Nitsaisook. An analysis of collocations and semantic prosody in Thai political news headlines in the bangkok post. Master's Degree(English for communication). Burapha University. Library. : Burapha University, 2017.
An analysis of collocations and semantic prosody in Thai political news headlines in the bangkok post
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the types and characteristics of collocations and semantic prosody of the collocations in Thai political news headlines in the Bangkok Post. The collocations were analyzed to determine their types and characteristics and the types of semantic prosody, and to find out whether the types of semantic prosody were affected by the news context. In this study, 148 front-page political news headlines during January 1st to December 31st, 2015 from the Bangkok Post were selected as the samples. As a result, there were 271 collocations appearing in the political news headlines. The collocation with structure of verb + noun (or preposition phrase) were found the most (33.95%). The structure of adjective + noun and noun + noun (30.63%) and the structure of verb + preposition (14.02%) came the second and third. Each type of the rest was found to appear less than 5%. For the types of semantic prosody, it was found that 53.51% of collocations had negative semantic prosody, 25.09% positive, and 21.40% neutral in collocational meaning. In contextual meaning, 54.24% of collocations had negative semantic prosody, 28.78% positive, and 16.98% neutral. A small number of collocations changed their collocational meaning when they appeared in the news context. The study revealed that the political news writers of the Bangkok Post tended to use lexical collocations more than grammatical collocations, and had direct views in writing political news headlines.