英文摘要 |
This current paper aims to explore the usages of the manipulative verb shua3 and its semantic extension on the Internet forum. PPT corpus, which sorts out the various articles from the famous online forum in Taiwan, is adopted to be the main source of the data. 1000 tokens of shua3 are teased out and treated. Additional technologies such as Antconc and TaiwanDH were also employed to analyze the data. Two major findings are found in this paper. First, six senses of the verb shua3 occur in the data. The sixth sense “continuing the situation” is the newly emergent meaning due to the frequent usage on the Internet forum. Second, syntactic behaviors and collocation of the verb shua3 are exploited to explain the semantic extension. The results show that the emergent meaning of the verb correlates with the conceptual frame and the frequent use of the strong collocation in the form of “shua3+NP.” |