On Speak With and Talk With: A Corpora-Based Analysis

The main purpose of this article is to provide a comparative analysis speak with and talk in the Corpus Historical American English (COHA) Contemporary Namkil Kang (COCA). With respect COHA, it interesting note that was always preferred over by Americans except 1820, 1830, 1840. A further point had highest frequency (271 tokens) 2010, whereas (633 1950. COCA, worth pointing out show same property four genres, they different other genres. Simply put, eight genres 50% as with. Talking about distance between with, former nearest latter web genre. Quite interestingly, COCA shows people authority are most widely used (126 tokens vs. 56 America. Finally, paper argues 26.08% forty six nouns collocations thus revealing low degree similarity.