Verb-Noun Collocations In Newspaper Editorials In Ghana: A Corpus-Based Analysis
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This paper is a corpus-based study which aims at profiling the most frequent verb-noun collocations and their communicative functions in newspaper editorials Ghana. In all, total of 92,927 running words were culled from 220 The Ghanaian Times Daily Graphic, published 2016 2017 news years, for compilation specialised corpus study. From collocation tab AntConc software, sixty-seven Verb-Noun Collocations found to constitute frequently occurring under revealed that both predictive open alternate left right sides on window span are mostly used by editorial writers Again, it was observed phrasal patterns noun collocate differed according its position either or side verb node. semantic prosodies profiled five major discourses constituted discussed issues years.These governance, politics elections, peace security, law order, corruption.
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عنوان ژورنال: Contemporary journal of African studies
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2343-6530']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4314/contjas.v9i2.4