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This study tries to reveal the semantic prosody of the word totally in Chinese learners’written English in comparison with native English speakers by examining the semantic prosodic features of totally in Spoken and Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners and Corpus of Contemporary American English.The study shows that Chinese Learners show significant differences with native English speakers for the word totally.The possible reasons for the differences may lie in negative language transfer.
This study tries to reveal the semantic prosody of the word totally in Chinese learners’written English in comparison with native English speakers by examining the semantic prosodic features of totally in Spoken and Written English Corpus of Chinese Learners and Corpus of Contemporary American English.The study shows that Chinese Learners show significant differences with native English speakers for the word totally. The possible reasons for the differences may lie in negative language transfer.