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English is widely considered to be rich in near-synonyms of Germanic and Latin-Romance origins. It implies that EFL learners may find it very challenging to recognize the subtle nuances of the synonymous words. This study aims to explore the similarities and differences in meaning and usage of two near-synonyms, entire and whole, for EFL learners to avoid potential sources of errors. To get this goal, this study 1) surveys 82 Korean college students to examine the recognition of the two adjectives; 2) shows the stylistic and diachronic variation through BNC and COHA respectively; 3) summarizes the dictionary definitions retrieved from three online dictionaries and applies them to the extracted instances from BNC; 4) extracts 200 noun collocates (MI>3) from BNC and analyzes them using Wmatrix program to sort their semantic categories. The findings of this study clearly illustrate remarkable differences in meaning and usage of two near-synonyms. They indicate that utilizing the semantic categories extracted from Wmatrix program is very useful to clarify the subtle meaning differences between two near-synonyms and enhance the learning of lexicon.

목차

I. 서론
 II. 선행연구
 III. 자료와 연구방법
 IV. 연구결과 및 토의
  1. 설문지 분석 결과
  2. 코퍼스 분석결과
  3. 사전적 의미 분석결과
  4. Wmatrix 프로그램 분석결과
 V. 결론
 Works Cited
 부록
 Abstract

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저자

• 하명호 [ Ha, Myoung-Ho | 신라대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810